What it does
- Partial-coverage tooling — recruitment-curve map showing which parcels are in, which are being approached, which are dark
- Multi-user access — partnership coordinators, statutory partners, ecologists, and individual landowners each see the appropriate slice
- Shared layers — one map, multiple parties contributing observations, fieldwork, and annotations
- Cross-organisation reporting — landscape-connectivity outputs spanning the network
- Catchment-scale roll-ups — sub-catchment to catchment to partnership to bioregion, with detail at every level
Why it matters
The harder half of landscape-scale ecology work is the recruitment curve — turning a list of potential partners into an actual network of signed-up holdings. Ecology App makes partial coverage and growing networks a primary part of the workflow: the recruitment map IS the funder-grade evidence base, and grows naturally with the network.
Example
A bioregion programme running 80+ active landowner members across a single catchment uses the recruitment-curve map to coordinate which parcels are in, which are being approached, and which are dark. Funder bids generate from the same map, so the partial-coverage story is itself the spatial annex. Sub-catchment and catchment-scale roll-ups give the coordinator, the partner organisations, and the funder each the level of detail they actually need.