The assessment of ecological connectivity of the Chojnowski Landscape Park – the regional approach
Journal Title: Annals of Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW. Land Reclamation - Year 2018, Vol 50, Issue 1
Abstract
Maintaining ecological connectivity is crucial especially for protected areas located in proximity of a large city. That sort of areas are threatened by urban sprawl which cause natural and semi-natural area loss, landscape fragmentation and isolation. Ecosystem services and biological diversity could be maintained by linking not yet protected areas and treat them as a part of ecological network. The Chojnowski Landscape Park is an example of such protected area which is located in the functional zone of Warsaw. The scope of the study was to delimitate potential ecological corridors linking the Chojnowski Landscape Park with other core areas, assess their functionality and point spots endangered by the ecological connectivity loss. Data from national institutions and the Corine land cover 2012 were used to make GIS analyses. Application of buffering and re-buffering methods allowed to indicate potential expansion zones and helped to delimitate ecological corridors linking the Chojnowski Landscape Park with surrounding landscape parks and national ecological corridors. The strongest and the most numerous connections were indicated towards Mazowiecki Landscape Park. Other potential ecological corridors were assessed as highly endangered, mostly because of infrastructural barriers. Despite the existence of areas of landscape protection as another form of the nature conservation of terrains located between parks, law regulations allow to effi ciently protect only the ecological corridors along river valleys. The local spatial planning actions are needed, because that will be the most effi cient way of preserving ecological corridors of Chojnowski Landscape Park.
Authors and Affiliations
AGATA PAWŁAT-ZAWRZYKRAJ, MACIEJ BRZANK
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- DOI 10.2478/sggw-2018-0002
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