Fig 1.
Location of the analyzed area in the Romanian Carpathian area: I. Archaeologically researched caves (1. Ungureasca Cave, 2. Peștereanu Cave, 3. Spurcată Cave, 4. Curată Cave, 5. Gaura Cocoșului Cave, 6. Bordul Mare Cave, 7. Hoților Cave, 8. Cioarei Cave, 9. Muierii Cave, 10. Sbârcioarei Cave, 11. Liliecilor Cave, 12. Gura Cheii Cave, 13. Abri 122, 14. Merești Cave, 15. Gabor Cave; 16. Liublinit Cave); II. Rivers; III. Lakes; Black Sea; IV. Limit of the analyzed area.
Table 1.
Location of caves with MP layers in Romania (X, Y coordonates in WGS 84).
Fig 2.
Altitudinal distribution of caves with MP layers.
Table 2.
Scores given to the environmental elements considered.
Fig 3.
Modeling of the cost_raster grid (D) based on the scores given to hypsometry (A), slopes (B) and distance from the hydrographic network (C).
Fig 4.
The cwd_alloc_ras raster resulting from the application of the Linkage Mapper protocol highlights the energetically allocated spaces for each cave (1–16: caves numbered according to Table 1).
Fig 5.
Areas allocated to each cave, according to the cwd_alloc-ras raster.
Fig 6.
Main corridors between MP sites in the Romanian Carpathians.
Table 3.
Number of links generated for each cave and the caves they are connected to.
Fig 7.
The Least-Cost Paths (lin_LCPs) and the straight-line (lin_Sticks) distances between the analyzed pairs of sites.
Fig 8.
CWD rasters for sites 1-8 (1. Ungurească Cave; 2. Peștereanu Cave; 3. Spurcată Cave; 4. Curată Cave; 5. Gaura Cocoșului Cave; 6. Bordul Mare Cave; 7. Hoților Cave; 8. Cioarei Cave).
Fig 9.
CWS rasters for sites 9-16 (9. Muierii Cave; 10. Sbârcioarei Cave; 11. Liliecilor Cave; 12. Gura Cheii Cave; 13. Abri 122; 14. Merești Cave; 15. Gabor Cave; 16. Liublinit Cave).
Fig 10.
Cumulative flow map (cumcurmap).
Fig 11.
Karst areas in the Romanian Carpathians intersected by mobility corridors.