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Modelling the Connectivity of Natura 2000 Sites and Their Integration in the Wider Landscape

    Christine Estreguil, Giovanni Caudullo

GI_Forum 2013, Volume 1, pp. 508-511, 2013/06/20

Creating the GISociety – Conference Proceedings

doi: 10.1553/giscience2013s508


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doi:10.1553/giscience2013s508


Abstract

Within the European Biodiversity Strategy for 2020 (EC 2011), the Green Infrastructure (GI) is introduced as one supporting tool to increase spatial and functional connectivity between natural protected and un-protected areas, and to improve landscape permeability (DG ENV. 2012). Natura 2000 (N2K) sites network, designated under the “Habitat” Directive (EC, 1992) and the “Bird” Directive (EC 2010), will form the backbone of GI. Connectivity is defined as a combined product of structural and functional connectivity, i.e. the effect of physical landscape structure and the actual species use of the landscape.