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Title: STRUCTURAL CONNECTIVITY ANALYSIS IN THE CARPATHIAN ECOREGION: PRELIMINARY STEPS FOR DEVELOPING LANDSCAPE NETWORKS
STRUCTURAL CONNECTIVITY ANALYSIS IN THE CARPATHIAN ECOREGION: PRELIMINARY STEPS FOR DEVELOPING LANDSCAPE NETWORKS

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Radu Tudor; Ileana Patru-Stupariu; Ancu?a Fedorca; Mirea Marian
10.5593/sgem2024v/3.2/s13.40
10.5593/sgem2024v/3.2
1314-2704
978-619-7603-76-7
English
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3.2
•    Prof. DSc. Oleksandr Trofymchuk, UKRAINE 
•    Prof. Dr. hab. oec. Baiba Rivza, LATVIA
Forest Ecosystems and Sustainable Forestry
Landscape and ecosystem preservation represents an integrated approach for conserving healthy and interconnected ecosystems. In order to maintain high-quality habitats and maximising the ecosystem services is crucial to have a good bond between connected areas. On both the Romanian and European levels, the backbone of these interconnected areas is formed by Natura 2000 networks [1]
The objectives of our study aim to address the Biodiversity 2030 Directive, which mandates the establishment of a coherent network of protected areas and the legal protection of at least 30% of the terrestrial surface of each EU country [2]. Currently, Romania has 23% of its terrestrial surface under protection.
To summarise, our goal is to create a landscape network at the level of the Romanian Carpathian ecoregion using structural connectivity analyses, of course, we will accomplish several secondary objectives before reaching this final goal, such as: identifying and classifying connectors, identifying forest patches favourable to the connectivity of protected areas, and classifying protected areas based on connectivity. To ensure high-quality habitats and maximize ecosystem services, such a network requires strong connections between different areas.
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