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We integrated the three themes to create the Resilient and Connected Network: 

1. Site Resilience based on microclimates and local connectedness applied to every geophysical setting. These criteria ensured that the network was designed around representative areas of every environment where species could persist due to the site’s connected climatic diversity.

2. Recognized Biodiversity Value based on critical sites for biodiversity. This ensured that the network contained the full spectrum of current diversity features such as intact habitat, critical species populations, and rare or exemplary natural communities.

3. Climate Flow based on an analysis of circuit flow across a landscape of variable resistance as defined by the arrangement and resistance of land uses, weighted by key upslope and downward flow. The idea was to use the natural flow patterns in designing the network by selecting resilient and biodiverse sites that reinforced or enhanced those patterns.  

We combined the sites and linkages identified by the combination of resilience, flow, and biodiversity into a single network. The network is designed to represent resilient examples all the characteristic environments of the region while maximizing amount of diversity contained within in them and the natural flow that connects them. By building the network around the natural flows and pathways that allow species populations to shift and expand and then identifying representative resilient sites situated within those pathways, the network is specifically configured to sustain biological diversity while allowing nature to adapt and change. 



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We integrated the three themes to create the Resilient and Connected Network: 

1. Site Resilience based on microclimates and local connectedness applied to every geophysical setting. These criteria ensured that the network was designed around representative areas of every environment where species could persist due to the site’s connected climatic diversity.

2. Recognized Biodiversity Value based on critical sites for biodiversity. This ensured that the network contained the full spectrum of current diversity features such as intact habitat, critical species populations, and rare or exemplary natural communities.

3. Climate Flow based on an analysis of circuit flow across a landscape of variable resistance as defined by the arrangement and resistance of land uses, weighted by key upslope and downward flow. The idea was to use the natural flow patterns in designing the network by selecting resilient and biodiverse sites that reinforced or enhanced those patterns.  

We combined the sites and linkages identified by the combination of resilience, flow, and biodiversity into a single network. The network is designed to represent resilient examples all the characteristic environments of the region while maximizing amount of diversity contained within in them and the natural flow that connects them. By building the network around the natural flows and pathways that allow species populations to shift and expand and then identifying representative resilient sites situated within those pathways, the network is specifically configured to sustain biological diversity while allowing nature to adapt and change. 



Copyright Text: Center for Resilient Conservation Science, The Nature Conservancy.

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