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Evaluation of national scale, long-distance connectivity (and its protection) in England’s priority habitat inventory - 2015 dataset

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Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
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Summary

The results of an analysis of the connectivity of sixteen priority habitat networks in England using the Condatis methodology. The dataset includes conductance scores for each of the priority habitat networks (an overall assessment of how connected the habitat network is), the flow scores for each contiguous habitat patch within each of the habitat networks (the importance of that patch to connectivity), as well as details of protection. Additionally, the dataset includes data and scripts needed to run a demonstration Condatis analysis, and produced the figures used in Travers et al., 2021 (in prep.). Dispersal distances of 2, 4 and 8 km were used as inputs into Condatis. The outputs of connectivity assessments using those dispersal figures were geometrically averaged to provide results summing up the connectedness of a habitat network over a range of dispersal abilities. To determine how much connectivity (flow), and which patches were protected in each habitat network they were overlaid with SSSI and NNR spatial data. If more than 50% of a patch’s area was covered by a protected area it was determined to be protected. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/a715112e-08ae-4d6e-943a-77933fd5ddd1

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
25 July 2026
Harvest GUID
a715112e-08ae-4d6e-943a-77933fd5ddd1
Extent (Latitude)
55.812° to 49.864°
Extent (Longitude)
-6.452° to 1.768°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2021-07-30
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Travers, T.J.P., Alison, J., Taylor, S.D., Crick, H.Q.P., Hodgson, J.A. (2021). Evaluation of national scale, long-distance connectivity (and its protection) in England’s priority habitat inventory - 2015 dataset. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/a715112e-08ae-4d6e-943a-77933fd5ddd1
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(author, pointOfContact, publisher, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng