A tutorial on Sites: An analytical toolbox for ecoregional conservation planning
Tutorial Outline
The planning problem
TNC Requirements
Site Selection Module
Objective Function
Simulated Annealing
Greedy Heuristic
Spatial Complexity
Planning Units
Input Files
SSM Outputs
The ArcView Interface
Input Editor
Running Site Selection
Displaying a Solution
Displaying a “Summed” Solution
Displaying a Species Distribution
Displaying Planning Unit Status
Changing Planning Unit Status
Show Contents of a Planning Unit
Chart of Targets Met
Examples for the Northern Sierra Nevada Ecoregion
Effect of the Algorithm
Effect of Boundary Modifier
Effect of Changing Costs
Effect of Changing Representation Goals
Effect of Locking Units in the Portfolio
Highlights
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