Published April 17, 2025 | Version v1
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Shared spaces: transport networks to link ecological communities in the UK – a regional perspective

  • 1. School of Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK
  • 2. Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR), University of Birmingham, UK
  • 3. Department of Geography, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
  • 4. West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), UK
  • 5. Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd, Milton Keynes, UK

Description

Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS) are instrumental in delivering landscape-wide nature recovery and can facilitate a co-ordinated approach to habitat connectivity across key stakeholders. This paper presents a process tool developed in the R “markdown” which can assist in stakeholder consultation leading to concrete initiatives for habitat management, restoration and creation. The process maps connectivity hotspots close to the transportation network to identify locations where the verge can assist in habitat connectivity and locations of wildlife-vehicle-collisions (WVC) risk. The process is demonstrated using a case study of woodland habitat in the West Midlands.

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