Advancing the consideration of ecological connectivity in environmental assessment – Part 2 of the special issue.

Using strategic environmental assessment and project environmental impact assessment to assess ecological connectivity at multiple scales in a national park context. Subsequent papers zoomed into specific cases that (1) explicitly incorporated connectivity assessments in the EA process across scales and EA tiers ranging from project-level environmental impact assessments to strategic environmental assessments (Cumming and Tavares [2]), (2) developed and applied strong quantitative approaches to model habitat connectivity for certain target species in EAs (Kor et al. [5]), and (3) explored the contribution of mitigation measures to the connectivity of ecological networks for amphibians (Clevenot et al. [1]). Advancing the consideration of ecological connectivity in environmental assessment - Part 2 of the special issue Despite a rapidly growing body of research about ecological connectivity, studies explicitly examining and advancing its inclusion and consideration in environmental assessment (EA) have remained surprisingly sparse. [Extracted from the article]