Woodland networks in a changing climate: Threats from land use change

Gimona, Alessandro; Poggio, Laura; Brown, Iain; Castellazzi, Marie

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2012.01.060

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“…This index considers present and potential bioclimatic conditions. Potential trade-offs between forestry, conservation and agriculture, and thus the multi-functional and sustainable dimensions of landscapes, can be addressed more inclusively if this information is considered (Brown et al, 2011;Gimona et al, 2012). Therefore, it constitutes a valuable baseline to analyse future scenarios of land-use and landscape change (Brown and Castellazzi, 2014).…”

Section: A Case Study To Analyse the Spatial Coherence And Socio-ecolmentioning

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“…These include Nature and Landscape Designations at levels including international (Scottish Natural Heritage, 2013k,l,m,n,o), national (Scottish Natural Heritage, 2013b,e,f,g,j) and local (Scottish Natural Heritage, 2013c,d). v. Potential for ecological connectivity of woodlands and forests (Gimona et al, 2012): This layer (Fig. 3e) reflects the suitability of landscapes to support the connectivity of native and seminative forest patches.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is acknowledged by scientists and policy makers that, to address key objectives of Scotland's land-use policy, forest and woodland networks and corridors need to be more effectively implemented and managed (Gimona et al, 2012;Scottish Government, 2011a,b;Scottish Natural Heritage, 2010). Whilst policy and planning are not the only drivers for corridor and network implementation (Moseley and Ray, 2007), we aim to show that the present policy and planning framework for forestry needs to strengthen key capabilities in order to align its objectives and actions across scales, sectors and actors.…”

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“…Notable advances have been made across landscape ecology and wider land systems science, and methods and findings continue to improve in sophistication and insight [12][13][14]. One of the greatest contributions of landscape ecological modelling has been informing spatial planning for conservation, where it has offered an important complementary approach to classical metapopulation theory by explicitly incorporating the contribution of the matrix (the environment between the habitat patches) [15][16][17][18][19]. However, this computational approach is not free of challenges.…”

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Emerging Opportunities for Landscape Ecological Modelling

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Landscape ecological modelling provides a vital means for understanding the interactions between geographical, climatic, and socio-economic drivers of land-use and the dynamics of ecological systems. This growing field is playing an increasing role in informing landscape spatial planning and management. Here, we review the key modelling approaches that are used in landscape modelling and in ecological modelling. We identify an emerging theme of increasingly detailed representation of process in both landscape and ecological modelling, with complementary suites of modelling approaches ranging from correlative, through aggregated process based approaches to models with much greater structural realism that often represent behaviours at the level of agents or individuals. We provide examples of the considerable progress that has been made at the intersection of landscape modelling and ecological modelling, while also highlighting that the majority of this work has to date exploited a relatively small number of the possible combinations of model types from each discipline. We use this review to identify key gaps in existing landscape ecological modelling effort and highlight emerging opportunities, in particular for future work to progress in novel directions by combining classes of landscape models and ecological models that have rarely been used together.

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“…Circuitscape has largely been used to model single-species functional connectivity between defined population pairs; in our application, we extend it to model multispecies functional connectivity independent of source and destination points. First, we demonstrated our approach using a simulated cost surface with a buffer, comparing the random placement of nodes around the perimeter of the buffered study area to placing nodes within the study area, which is more typical of recent circuit theory applications (Rabinowitz & Zeller 2010;Gimona et al 2012). We then validated our method using a cost surface developed from land-use maps in the Algonquin to Adirondack (A2A) region, a landscape of conservation importance in eastern North America.…”

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Landscape connectivity for wildlife: development and validation of multispecies linkage maps

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Summary1. The ability to identify regions of high functional connectivity for multiple wildlife species is of conservation interest with respect to habitat management and corridor planning. We present a method that does not require independent, field-collected data, is insensitive to the placement of source and destination sites (nodes) for modeling connectivity, and does not require the selection of a focal species. 2. In the first step of our approach, we created a cost surface that represented permeability of the landscape to movement for a suite of species. We randomly selected nodes around the perimeter of the buffered study area and used circuit theory to connect pairs of nodes. When the buffer was removed, the resulting current density map represented, for each grid cell, the probability of use by moving animals. 3. We found that using nodes that were randomly located around the perimeter of the buffered study area was less biased by node placement than randomly selecting nodes within the study area. We also found that a buffer of ≥ 20% of the study area width was sufficient to remove the effects of node placement on current density. We tested our method by creating a map of connectivity in the Algonquin to Adirondack region in eastern North America, and we validated the map with independently collected data. We found that amphibians and reptiles were more likely to cross roads in areas of high current density, and fishers (Pekania [Martes] pennanti) used areas with high current density within their home ranges. 4. Our approach provides an efficient and cost effective method of predicting areas with relatively high landscape connectivity for multiple species..

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Woodland networks in a changing climate: Threats from land use change

Cited by 28 publications

References 59 publications

Synergies and conflicts in the use of policy and planning instruments for implementing forest and woodland corridors and networks; a case study in NE Scotland

Synergies and conflicts in the use of policy and planning instruments for implementing forest and woodland corridors and networks; a case study in NE Scotland

Emerging Opportunities for Landscape Ecological Modelling

Landscape connectivity for wildlife: development and validation of multispecies linkage maps

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