Using Systematic Conservation Planning to consider climate change

Climate change does and will increasingly impact protected sites for biodiversity. The changing distribution and abundance of species and the timing of ecological events are resulting in changes to the structure and function of communities. Our protected site network and future Protected Site Strategies need to take this increasing dynamism into account. Natural England has implemented a SSSI Future Reforms (SSSIFR) project to investigate whether the statutory framework for Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSS...