The assessment will guide the TFCA process and used a systematic conservation planning approach to design a landscape to conserve 44 landcover types, 53 species and 14 ecological processes.
The proposed process combines tenets of professional urban/regional planning and systematic conservation planning.
Rondinini, C., Wilson, K. A., Boitani, L., Grantham, H. & Possingham, H. P. Tradeoffs of different types of species occurrence data for use in systematic conservation planning.
Options for protected area systems were assessed using C-Plan, a decision support system designed for systematic conservation planning.
The most widespread reserve selection strategy is target-based planning, as specified under the framework of systematic conservation planning.
This suggests that much more work is needed to harmonise existing proposals with the principles of efficient systematic conservation planning.
Secondly, the systematic conservation planning tool, Marxan is used to identify protected areas based on the estimated species distributions from the optimal landscape configuration.
Two original systems of notional reserves were developed for this region using C-plan, a decision support system for systematic conservation planning.
This research reports on a new approach to conservation assessment that seeks to extend the target-based model traditionally underpinning systematic conservation planning.
Systematic conservation planning methods to design marine protected area (MPA) networks can provide more meaningful results by addressing the spatiotemporal variability of biota, and by using these data to inform target assignment.
Even if an adequate framework should emerge — and the present prospects seem dim — it is at least questionable how valuable PVA can be for systematic conservation planning.
