Integrated Modeling of Large Scale Forest Patterns and Connectivity of Protected Areas and Relevance in the Context of Ecosystem Services and Climate Change. Estreguil, C., Caudullo, G., de Rigo , D., Whitmore, C., & San-Miguel-Ayanz, J. In FORECOM: Forest Cover Changes in Mountainous Regions - Drivers, Trajectories and Implications, 2013. Institute of Geography and Spatial Management of the Jagiellonian University.
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The mitigation of ecosystem fragmentation is important in Target 2 of the new European Biodiversity strategy to 2020, aiming at the maintenance and enhancement of ecosystem services (e.g. habitat provision, disturbance regulation, climate change mitigation). Better knowledge on patterns, fragmentation processes and functional connectivity of focal ecosystem is needed within and between protected areas as well as in the wider country side. An overview of JRC activities is given on tools, models and applications for a European-wide improved and harmonised reporting on forest patterns and connectivity (fragmentation). The recently available generic, reproducible and integrated characterisation of patterns based on three models and a set of indices is presented. National profiles of forest pattern in the wider country side are shown on forest morphological shapes, fragmentation landscape pattern, edge interfaces and connectivity. The connectivity of Natura2000 forest sites is then computed in few countries (Spain, Belgium, Germany and Poland), and results allow for comparison of the connectivity index value across countries and the identification of key-sites and gaps in connectivity. The presentation finally introduces the dedicated pattern web map viewer which is now available from the European Forest Data Centre (EFDAC) for data viewing and query.
@inproceedings{estreguilIntegratedModelingLarge2013,
  title = {Integrated Modeling of Large Scale Forest Patterns and Connectivity of Protected Areas and Relevance in the Context of Ecosystem Services and Climate Change},
  booktitle = {{{FORECOM}}: {{Forest}} Cover Changes in Mountainous Regions - Drivers, Trajectories and Implications},
  author = {Estreguil, Christine and Caudullo, Giovanni and {de Rigo}, Daniele and Whitmore, Ceri and {San-Miguel-Ayanz}, Jes{\'u}s},
  year = {2013},
  publisher = {{Institute of Geography and Spatial Management of the Jagiellonian University}},
  abstract = {The mitigation of ecosystem fragmentation is important in Target 2 of the new European Biodiversity strategy to 2020, aiming at the maintenance and enhancement of ecosystem services (e.g. habitat provision, disturbance regulation, climate change mitigation). Better knowledge on patterns, fragmentation processes and functional connectivity of focal ecosystem is needed within and between protected areas as well as in the wider country side.  An overview of JRC activities is given on tools, models and applications for a European-wide improved and harmonised reporting on forest patterns and connectivity (fragmentation). The recently available generic, reproducible and integrated characterisation of patterns based on three models and a set of indices is presented. National profiles of forest pattern in the wider country side are shown on forest morphological shapes, fragmentation landscape pattern, edge interfaces and connectivity. The connectivity of Natura2000 forest sites is then computed in few countries (Spain, Belgium, Germany and Poland), and results allow for comparison of the connectivity index value across countries and the identification of key-sites and gaps in connectivity. The presentation finally introduces the dedicated pattern web map viewer which is now available from the European Forest Data Centre (EFDAC) for data viewing and query.},
  keywords = {*imported-from-citeulike-INRMM,~INRMM-MiD:c-12238517,climate-change,connectivity,ecosystem-services,environmental-modelling,forest-resources,integrated-modelling,integration-techniques,landscape-modelling,spatial-pattern},
  lccn = {INRMM-MiD:c-12238517}
}

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