South East England Biodiversity Forum

Case Study - BRANCH Kent and Hampshire and South Downs Projects

The BRANCH project modeled the impacts of climate change on the biodiversity of Hampshire and Kent. 

Hampshire and the South Downs 

The potential climate space for a group of species was compared with their current habitat distribution and with places where opportunities for habitat creation and restoration had been previously mapped. For details of this study please see the BRANCH web-page

 Kent

In Kent BRANCH worked with stakeholders to develop a transferable method to design ecological networks as a climate change adaptation strategy. For details of this study please see the BRANCH web-page