Supplementary Table 1. List of some representative publications that have used resistance surfaces to illustrate different parameterization methods. Not all studies used resistance surfaces in conjunction with genetic data, but created resistance surfaces that potentially could be useful for landscape genetic studies.
For studies that used expert opinion, we noted whether resistance values were arbitrarily given categorical values or were continuous.
Study Authors
Balkenhol
Broquet et al.
Chardon et al.
Chietkiewicz &
Boyce
Year
2009
2006
2003
Clark et al.
Coulon et al.
Cushman
Driezen
Epps et al.
Gonzales et al.
Janin
Lada et al.
Laiola & Tella
LaRue & Nielsen
O’Brien et al.
et al.
Koscinski
Lee-Yaw et al.
et al.
Ovaskainen et al.
et al.
Michels et al.
McRae & Beier et al.
2009
2008
2004
2006
2007
2007
2007
2009
2009
2008
2006
2008
2009
2007
2001
2006
2008
Perez-Espona et al.
2008
Radespiel et al.
2008
Schweiger et al.
Spear & Storfer
Spear et al.
Stevens et al.
2004
2008
2005
2006
Verbeylen et al.
Vignieri
Vos et al.
Wang et al.
Wang et al.
Zalewski et al.
2003
2005
2001
2008
2009
2009
Genetic data used? Parameterization Method(s)
Y
Y
N expert opinion (continuous), optimization expert opinion (categorical) expert opinion (categorical), optimization
N
Y
Y
Y
N
Y
N
N
Y
Y
N
N
Y
Y
Y
N
N
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
N
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y radio telemetry expert opinion (categorical) expert opinion (continuous) expert opinion (continuous, categorical), optimization radio telemetry radio telemetry, optimization expert opinion, presence-absence optimization expert opinion (categorical) expert opinion (categorical), optimization distribution model expert opinion expert opinion (categorical, continuous), optimization expert opinion (binary) movement rate
Radio telemetry, logistic regression mark-recapture data expert opinion (categorical, continuous), optimization expert opinion (categorical) expert opinion (categorical), optimization expert opinion (categorical, continuous), optimization expert opinion (continuous) experimental movement expert opinion (categorical), optimization expert opinion (categorical) expert opinion (continuous) distribution model, optimization optimization expert opinion (categorical), optimization

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