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DOI 10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.06.009
Title (Primary) Conservation planning to zone protected areas under optimal landscape management for bird conservation
Author Lin, Y.-P.; Huang, C.-W.; Ding, T.-S.; Wang, Y.-C.; Hsiao, W.-T.; Crossman, N.D.; Lengyel, S.; Lin, W.-C.; Schmeller, D.S.
Source Titel Environmental Modelling & Software
Year 2014
Department NSF
Volume 60
Page From 121
Page To 133
Language englisch
Keywords Systematic conservation planning; Habitat suitability; Spatial optimization; Landscape; Marxan software; Bird species
UFZ wide themes RU1
Abstract This study proposes a two-stage conservation planning approach. Firstly, the Land-Use Pattern Optimization-library is used to maximize the suitability of habitats for target species by optimizing configuration based on the current landscape. Secondly, the systematic conservation planning tool, Marxan is used to identify protected areas based on the estimated species distributions from the optimal landscape configuration. We compared our conservation plan for three target bird species from a highland farm with the conservation plan produced using Marxan alone. Our comparison showed the effectiveness of our approach by selecting a reserve network with higher habitat suitability, better connection, and smaller size after relatively minor landscape modification. The proposed approach advances previous reserve site selection algorithms by considering optimal landscape configuration and potential species distributions for a reserve network design. Our approach yields priority maps to guide the design of a reserve network as well as identify landscape management for conservation.
Persistent UFZ Identifier https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=15040
Lin, Y.-P., Huang, C.-W., Ding, T.-S., Wang, Y.-C., Hsiao, W.-T., Crossman, N.D., Lengyel, S., Lin, W.-C., Schmeller, D.S. (2014):
Conservation planning to zone protected areas under optimal landscape management for bird conservation
Environ. Modell. Softw. 60 , 121 - 133 10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.06.009