L4, P1: Connectivity in spatial land use planning
Channel: Luonnonpaikka
Date: 2021-03-26

This is the first part of a video lecture that explains what connectivity is and how it can be accounted for in spatial conservation planning. In this video, three types or levels of connectivity are introduced: habitat, landscape, and ecological connectivity. Several ways to measure connectivity are also explained, including both landscape structural and population ecological approaches.

The lectures belong to a course on spatial land-use planning (ECOS1088), taught by Dr. Kaisa J. Raatikainen at the University of Jyväskylä in spring 2021. The course combines the practices of land-use planning with theoretical background from landscape ecology and conservation science, with specific attention on GIS-based conservation prioritization. Conservation priotization software Zonation is utilized throughout the course as a tool to analyze spatial data and inform spatial land-use planning.

The previous lecture concentrated on the basic inputs and outputs of a Zonation analysis. From this on, we start to dig deeper into more complex analytical setups and see how the prioritization can be parameterized in order to account for intricate ecological and social aspects.