DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ECOLOGICAL CORRIDORS NETWORK IN TENERIFE ISLAND – SPAIN
CLIENT: Insular Council of Tenerife
Dates: March 2017 – December 2017
SUMMARY: The objective of this project was the identification and characterization of the Ecological Corridors Network of Tenerife Island, formed by areas of high ecological connectivity, and focused to preserve the island biodiversity.
The analysis was based on the territorial adequacy modeling for a series of flora and fauna target species, using GIS tools, and with an intense bibliographic review and field sampling to verify the actual adequacy of the identified corridors.
Some of the actions that we carried out for the achievement of the objectives, were the following:
- Characterization of natural habitats and protected areas present in the island (fragmentation diagnosis).
- Development of a Habitat Adaptation Model based on a permeability analysis using a set of selected species with the support of a scientific council.
- Modeling of “patches” or connectivity nodes based on the previous model.
- Cost-distance analysis for the determination of ecological corridors.
- Analysis of the ecological connectivity of the wet ravines.
- Analysis of the points of tension of ecological corridors with transport routes
- Analysis of the points of tension of ecological corridors with communication