Project NATREG - Styria: Securing open spaces for people and nature. Detailed information on the project can be found at: https://www.agrar.steiermark.at/cms/beitrag/11944510/100812449/

Querungsbauwerke entlang der Autobahnen und Schnellstraßen. Im Datensatz beinhaltet sind alle Querungsbauwerke welche eine Bauwerksbreite größer 30 Meter aufweisen (=Kategorie B: Breite die von Wildtieren bei der Querung der Infrastruktur genützt bzw. zur Verfügung steht) und noch eine wildökologische Funktion aufweisen (=durchlässig oder zumindest teildurchlässig sind). Des Weiteren sind vereinzelte Bauwerke der Kategorie C (15-30 Meter) und D (> 15 Meter) im Datensatz berücksichtigt. Diese werden jedoch nur für jene Bereichen in denen der integrale Datensatz zur Lebensraumvernetzung in Österreich die Autobahnen und Schnellstraßen quert und kein höherwertiges Querungsbauwerk existiert bereitgestellt. Die Querungsbauwerke wurden aus dem Datensatz der im Rahmen der Studie "Kontrollstudie zur Wilddurchlässigkeit auf Autobahnen und Schnellstraßen" aus dem Jahr 2018 erstellt wurde. Dieser wurde in noch einmal visuell kontrolliert. Daten-Download (Geopackage) unter: https://docs.umweltbundesamt.at/s/aKPt5nfeFWJe84q

LRVA-2022: Current version of the integral dataset on habitat connectivity in Austria. This dataset takes into account all datasets and designations of habitat corridors from scientific projects and public sector projects (federal provinces). The dataset has been evaluated by the experts of the Cooridnation Platform "Habitat Connectivity Austria" and is updated as soon as new information and designations from projects are available. Further details are available in the endreport: https://docs.umweltbundesamt.at/s/AzZrHid6q9wkDDM

Austrian Ecological Corridors - final version. Valued by the experts of the federal provinces. Prepared in the framework of the LE project "Habitat connectivity to safeguard biodiversity in Austria".

The specific designation of supra-regional migration corridors for larger, preferably forest-bound wildlife is intended to ensure, improve and, if necessary, restore the functionality of a statewide biotope and habitat network. For further information see: http://www.ooe-umweltanwaltschaft.at/xbcr/SID-B49D7CBE-852A8EF6/wildtierkorridore_ooe_2012.pdf

Modeling the course of the Alpen Kaparten corridor. Consists of the four Bottlenecks and additional core zones of wildlife in-betweeen them. Attributes: -101 - primarily core zone, buffered from centerline 250m to each side -102 - primarily border zone, buffered from core zone 150m -201 - secondary core zone, buffered from centerline 250m to each side -202 - secondary border zone, buffered from core zone 150m -112 - primarily, core - and borderzone are together, buffered 400m from the centerline on each side -0 - core zones of wildlife, big forested areas, only rough delineation

LRVA-2022: Generated standard map representation of the special topic maps for ecological corridors in Austria for the forest development plan. The maps are automatically updated as soon as the data basis (=modification of ecological corridors or modification forest mask from the Federal Forest Research Centre /BFW) changes. Details see also end report available: https://docs.umweltbundesamt.at/s/AzZrHid6q9wkDDM. QGIS-Modell for the maps generation available here: https://docs.umweltbundesamt.at/s/CjTNNLzPEKbNWyX

In spring 2019, the NP Thayatal GmbH commissioned the Büro für Wildökologie und Forstwirtschaft e.U. (Office for Wildlife Ecology and Forestry) to prepare a wildcat corridor plan in the Wald- & Weinviertel in Austria and the districts of South Bohemia and South Moravia in the Czech Republic as part of the Interreg project MaGICLandscapes. For the study area in Austria and the Czech Republic, the habitat potential of the European wildcat is to be estimated in the form of a habitat model. Based on the habitat model, a corridor analysis will show the possible distribution routes of the cat. As a further step, a strategy and action plan will be developed to provide a basis for improving and expanding migration corridors and thus dispersal opportunities for the wildcat along the green infrastructure. Within the framework of the MaGICLandscapes project, the research results serve as a basis for the planning, construction and management of green infrastructure. For the National Park Thayatal, they serve as input for the further procedure in wildcat management and are taken into account in the wildcat population support concept. See further information: https://lebensraumvernetzung.at/publikationen/Leitner-2020-Wildkatzenkorridorplan-Endbericht-2021-04-19-web.pdf