Designing a Climate Change Resilient Landscape Connectivity Network From a Multi-Species Perspective.

ABSTRACT: There is strong evidence that climate change causes species range shifts and declines. Protected areas and suitable habitats are important for maintaining biodiversity. Species range changes depend on landscape connectivity between areas, facilitating movement and colonisation. Conservationists should identify landscape connectivity, as climate change causes species to move at different points in time. We quantified national connectivity for England for a sample of nationally important taxa associated with limestone and upland habitats, reflecting the White Peak as example focal region. We generated England-wide species distribution models for 15 species for three climate change time scenarios (Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 245): current, 2050 and 2090. We inverted these models, applying ci

SUBMITTER: Bedson CPE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12446580 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature