TerraLink
Reading and preserving ecological continuities
TerraLink structures the analysis of ecological continuities (green and blue network). ARKENOR conducts the associated ecological expertise, in design.
Reading and preserving ecological continuities
The green and blue network, ecological continuities at project and territory scale, is becoming a design parameter. TerraLink structures this analysis, backed by ARKENOR's ecological expertise: surveys, habitat characterisation, corridor mapping.
TerraLink is a tool under development, operated outside the certification scope. The associated ecological expertise is a matter of design and advisory (ARKENOR), separate from any certification assignment.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Purpose
A site is a fragment of a network, not an island.
Assessing a site on its own boundaries misses what matters most for biodiversity: whether species can move through it. A parcel of modest ecological value can carry a corridor whose interruption affects habitats well beyond it, and a rich parcel that is already isolated may contribute less than it appears.
TerraLink is our method for reading a site in that wider frame: identifying the reservoirs and corridors around it, establishing where the real continuities pass, and translating that into design constraints and opportunities.
Use
Regional mapping is coarse; the corridor is located on the ground.
Planning documents map the green and blue network at regional scale, which is too coarse to position a hedgerow or an opening in a fence. Field verification is what turns a mapped intention into a design instruction.
The output is used twice: to inform the layout, and to evidence connectivity commitments in the environmental file, where they will later be verified on site, by a site ecologist, against what was actually built.
Going further
Related pages.
This question connects to these pages.
- Green and blue network — the framework it applies
- Four-season surveys — the field evidence
- Site ecologist — verifying permeability as built
- Regional and local planning — where the network becomes binding
- Integrating and certifying biodiversity — the adjacent question
- Offsetting measures — restoring connectivity as a gain
- Working with architects — the wider engagement
- Working with land developers — corridors across a masterplan
- Environmental expertise — the wider set of studies
- Net Zero Land Take — the land-use constraint alongside
- Environmental impact assessment — where connectivity is reported
- Working with local authorities — network mapping at territory scale
- Effinature biodiversity certification — verifying the delivered result
Discuss ecological continuities
ARKENOR, ecological expertise and continuities.
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