Summary:

The article presents the method for land-use evaluation of the areas located within ecological corridors in order to assess their performance in the ecological network. The method was applied for the ecological corridor located in the central part of the Góra Kalwaria commune, connecting areas of Chojnowski Forest and the Vistula Valley. The existing and future land use of the area was analyzed in terms of maintaining ecological connectivity. The study results enabled to point out several hotspots, where natural connectivity is under threat, mostly on an account of settlement building development and road infrastructure. The evaluation results can be the basis for the verification of the commune' spatial policy in terms of the location and boundaries of ecological corridors. The analyzed corridor in Góra Kalwaria commune enabled to display formal and practical problems associated with the maintenance of ecological corridors.