PM 27 - Create scrub and mosaic habitats to improve habitat connectivity

Code

PM 27

Measure

Create scrub and mosaic habitats to improve habitat connectivity

Description

These habitats provide valuable transitional areas between other habitats and can often maintain habitat connectivity despite the change in habitat type. For example, scrub between woodland allows transition to more open habitats or alongside hedgerows to extend these linear features. These habitats can be created through natural regeneration or planting or by coppicing of existing woodland, and should be established in areas to provide suitable linkages between habitat parcels.

Wider environmental benefits

Increasing woodland cover Improving air quality Improving water quality Increasing flood risk management Reducing climate change impacts Improving soil health Promoting nature friendly farming

Links to additional information and guidance

https://defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/create-scrub-and-scrub-mosaics/

Priority

Scrub and mosaic habitats are safeguarded, restored and created

Priority description

Scrub and mosaic habitats may often be overlooked habitats, but they provide vital homes for a diversity of wildlife, and act as important edge and buffer habitat between other habitats, such as woodlands, orchards, or grasslands. Scrub often has dense vegetation cover, which provides ideal nesting habitat for a variety of bird species, as well as providing a nectar source for several invertebrates.

Mapped

No