Research overview: climate corridors linking present and future felid habitat

As suitable conditions shift, species need corridors that connect where they live now to where they will need to live, a concept sometimes called climate connectivity. This overview surveys methods for mapping such forward-looking corridors, which align connectivity with the direction of projected climate shifts, and how they differ from traditional corridors based on current habitat alone. It reviews applications to wide-ranging cats whose ranges may need to move with the climate. The synthesis frames climate corridors as a dynamic evolution of connectivity planning, explaining why conserving the routes that let felid populations track changing conditions, rather than only linking today's patches, is increasingly central to climate-adaptive conservation strategy.