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2026
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| Accesso online: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19387324 |
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- <p>Urban waterfronts are increasingly shaped by the need to balance heritage conservation, economic vitality, and environmental responsibility. Along the River Tyne in Newcastle–Gateshead, the world’s most inland and urbanised colony of black-legged Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) nests within a historic quayside that supports intensive tourism, leisure, and regeneration, generating persistent conflict related to noise, fouling, and building maintenance. This study develops a GIS-based habitat suitability framework to inform planning and policy responses to human–wildlife interactions, modelling presence-only nesting records as a function of environmental and built-form indicators using a hierarchical hexagonal grid and maximum entropy. The results identify clear spatial patterns of nesting suitability structured by waterfront morphology, building height and materials, vegetation cover, and infrastructure intensity, revealing numerous currently unoccupied but highly suitable locations. By anticipating where nesting is likely to emerge and how planning interventions may alter habitat conditions, the approach supports more proactive, place-sensitive decision-making. The study demonstrates how GIS can contribute to more-than-human urban planning by embedding ecological considerations into everyday spatial governance of heritage-rich waterfronts.</p>