Assessing the connectivity value of roadway structures for terrestrial mammals across the Northern Appalachian forest of Vermont

• Caitlin E. Drasher ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Caitlin E. Drasher, James D. Murdoch

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cdrasher@uvm.edu

  Affiliation Wildlife and Fisheries Biology Program, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1429-8085

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• Chris Slesar ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ CS, JH-H and GG, PM, VL also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Vermont Agency of Transportation, Barre, Vermont, United States of America

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• Jens Hawkins-Hilke ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ CS, JH-H and GG, PM, VL also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Fish and Wildlife, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, Essex, Vermont, United States of America

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• Glenn Gingras ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ CS, JH-H and GG, PM, VL also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Vermont Agency of Transportation, Barre, Vermont, United States of America

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• Paul Marangelo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ CS, JH-H and GG, PM, VL also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation The Nature Conservancy Vermont, Montpelier, Vermont, United States of America

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• Vincent Landau ,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing, Formal analysis

  ¶‡ CS, JH-H and GG, PM, VL also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Conservation Science Partners, Inc., Truckee, California, United States of America, Vibrant Planet PBC, Incline Village, NV, United States of America

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• Kimberly R. Hall,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation North America Science, The Nature Conservancy, Haslett, Michigan, United States of America

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• Schuyler B. Pearman-Gillman,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Apex Resource Management Solutions Ltd, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• James D. Murdoch

  Contributed equally to this work with: Caitlin E. Drasher, James D. Murdoch

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wildlife and Fisheries Biology Program, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

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