Implementing landscape connectivity assessment for biodiversity management and land-use planning in Alberta

在艾伯塔省实施景观连通性评估以促进生物多样性管理和土地利用规划

• 批准号: 567014-2021
• 负责人: Wagner, HeleneHH
• 金额: $ 8.42万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=745995
• 关键词: Implementing; landscape; connectivity; assessment; biodiversity

Sustainability is a core value for the public in Canada and globally. Planning for ecological sustainability must go beyond protecting land (including both, native and managed landscapes), it must also ensure that animals and other organisms can move between protected areas, so as to maintain viable and genetically diverse populations with the potential to adapt to climate change. Connectivity refers to the degree to which the landscape facilitates such movement of organisms and their genes. Hence, connectivity planning is a key aspect of sustainable land-use planning: the way in which economic development outside of protected areas is implemented and mitigated is crucial for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. By removing barriers identified by implementers, this project will lead to the integration of connectivity planning in areas undergoing rapid land-use change through urban and industrial development, highways, and cultivation. This is essential for sustainable land-use planning and for ensuring that the public investment leads to a protected area network effective at maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. In collaboration with the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI), our research team already developed a set of general-purpose connectivity models for the province of Alberta from human footprint data, validated them with biodiversity monitoring data for mammals, birds, plants, soil mites, lichens, and mosses, and identified a general-use model that best represents connectivity for a broad range of terrestrial species. Building on these results, the NSERC Alliance project has three goals: integrating connectivity assessment with planning methods, building in-house capacity for implementers to perform local connectivity assessments, and clarifying the interpretation and limitations of general-use connectivity maps. The proposed approach can be used to visualize the impact of alternative planning scenarios on connectivity to support a participatory planning process, where end-users, such as citizen groups, Indigenous Peoples and NGOs, are involved in making decisions that are grounded in science and incorporate Indigenous knowledge and local perspectives.

可持续发展是加拿大和全球公众的核心价值观。生态可持续性规划必须超越保护土地（包括原生景观和管理景观），还必须确保动物和其他生物体能够在保护区之间移动，以维持具有适应气候变化潜力的可生存和遗传多样性种群。连通性是指景观促进生物体及其基因运动的程度。因此，连通性规划是可持续土地利用规划的一个关键方面：保护区以外的经济发展的实施和减缓方式对于维持生物多样性和生态系统服务至关重要。通过消除实施者确定的障碍，该项目将导致通过城市和工业发展、高速公路和耕作而经历快速土地使用变化的地区的连通性规划的整合。这对于可持续的土地使用规划和确保公共投资导致保护区网络有效维持生物多样性和生态系统服务至关重要。在与阿尔伯塔生物多样性监测研究所（ABMI）的合作中，我们的研究团队已经从人类足迹数据中为阿尔伯塔省开发了一套通用的连接模型，并用哺乳动物，鸟类，植物，土壤螨，地衣和苔藓的生物多样性监测数据对其进行了验证，并确定了一个通用模型，该模型最能代表广泛的陆地物种的连接。在这些成果的基础上，NSERC联盟项目有三个目标：将连通性评估与规划方法相结合，为实施者建立内部能力，以执行本地连通性评估，并澄清通用连通性地图的解释和限制。所提出的方法可用于可视化替代规划方案对连通性的影响，以支持参与式规划过程，其中最终用户，如公民团体，土著人民和非政府组织，参与决策，以科学为基础，并纳入土著知识和当地观点。