| Linear features are structuring landscape elements. We change our landscapes and rebuild them into new linkages, and landscapes are even constructed around these linkages. Landscape linkages are important for species migration and dispersal on a large scale and a small scale: storks, bats and badgers. There is, however also diversity within landscapes and landscape elements: plants species, insects and breeding birds. History and land-use development hampered both biodiversity at the European level and at the landscape level. As landscapes are dynamic, cultural landscapes are not only historic, but they will be constructed and reconstructed. History has had an impact on the regional diversity. Reconstructing European linkages should take into account... |
