A tutorial on Sites: An analytical toolbox for ecoregional conservation planning

University of California, Santa Barbara--Biogeography Lab


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Table of Contents

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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