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Landscape Ecol (2009) 24:267–280 DOI 10.1007/s10980-008-9304-x RESEARCH ARTICLE A comparison of metrics predicting landscape connectivity for a highly interactive species along an urban gradient in Colorado, USA Seth B. Magle Æ David M. Theobald Æ Kevin R. Crooks Received: 6 August 2007 / Accepted: 31 October 2008 / Published online: 15 November 2008 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008 Abstract Many organisms persist in fragmented best predicted occupancy, where we assumed roads habitat where movement between patches is essential were fairly impermeable to movement, and low-lying for long-term demographic and genetic stability. In drainages provided dispersal corridors. We also found the absence of direct observation of movement, this result to be robust to a range of cost weight connectivity or isolation metrics are useful to char- parameters. Our results suggest that metrics should acterize potential patch-level connectivity. However, incorporate both patch area and the composition of multiple metrics exist at varying levels of complexity, the surrounding matrix. These results provide guid- and empirical data on species distribution are rarely ance for improved landscape habitat modeling in used to compare performance of metrics. We com- fragmented landscapes and can help identify target pared 12 connectivity metrics of varying degrees of habitat for conservation and management of prairie complexity to determine which metric best predicts dogs in urban systems. the distribution of prairie dog colonies along an urban gradient of 385 isolated habitat patches in Denver, Keywords Connectivity Landscape metrics Colorado, USA. We found that a modified version of Prairie d