Pan-European Functional Connectivity and Corridor Prioritization for Terrestrial Vertebrates

This dataset includes functional connectivity data layers for all terrestrial vertebrates within and surrouding the European Union. These data were produced by the Horizion EU project NaturaConnect (Task 6.3) as detailed in Deliverable 6.2 "Protected area connectivity: prioritising trans-European ecological connectivity". These data are derived from a novel framework that integrates Omniscape, graph-theory metrics, and randomized shortest paths (RSP) to identify key connectivity pinch points and prioritize ecological corridors for 30 terrestrial vertebrate archetypes hat constitute all vertebrate species in the EU. The dpc_nodes.zip contains a .RDS point spatial layer for each archetype. These are the protected area nodes and their corresponding dPC values that were used for RSP analysis. The omniscape.zip folders are divided by major taxonomic groups. They contain cumulative current density and normalized current density maps for each archetype. The cumulative_rsp.zip contains archetype-specific RSP shapefiles and a merged all vertebrate species shapefile. The "cmltv_n" attribute column should be treated as the integrated corridor priority value.