학술논문

Software for prioritizing conservation actions based on probabilistic information
Document Type
Report
Source
Conservation Biology. August, 2021, Vol. 35 Issue 4, p1299, 10 p.
Subject
Natural disasters
Global temperature changes
Annealing
Wildlife conservation
Environmental issues
Zoology and wildlife conservation
Language
English
ISSN
0888-8892
Abstract
Keywords: biodiversity; climate change; decision support; Marxan; optimization; probability; protected areas; simulated annealing; spatial conservation prioritization; species distribution modeling; apoyo a decidir; áreas protegidas; biodiversidad; cambio climático; Marxan; modelado de la distribución de especies; optimización; priorización de la conservación espacial; probabilidad; reconocimiento simulado; çç©å¤æ ·æ§; å³ç­æ¯æ; Marxan 软件; ä¼å; æ¦ç; ä¿æ¤åº; 模æéç«æ³; 空é´ä¼åä¿æ¤; ç©ç§åå¸å»ºæ¨¡; æ°ååå Abstract Marxan is the most common decision-support tool used to inform the design of protected-area systems. The original version of Marxan does not consider risk and uncertainty associated with threatening processes affecting protected areas, including uncertainty about the location and condition of species' populations and habitats now and in the future. We described and examined the functionality of a modified version of Marxan, Marxan with Probability. This software explicitly considers 4 types of uncertainty: probability that a feature exists in a particular place (estimated based on species distribution models or spatially explicit population models); probability that features in a site will be lost in the future due to a threatening process, such as climate change, natural catastrophes, and uncontrolled human interventions; probability that a feature will exist in the future due to natural successional processes, such as a fire or flood; and probability the feature exists but has been degraded by threatening processes, such as overfishing or pollution, and thus cannot contribute to conservation goals. We summarized the results of 5 studies that illustrate how each type of uncertainty can be used to inform protected area design. If there were uncertainty in species or habitat distribution, users could maximize the chance that these features were represented by including uncertainty using Marxan with Probability. Similarly, if threatening processes were considered, users minimized the chance that species or habitats were lost or degraded by using Marxan with Probability. Marxan with Probability opens up substantial new avenues for systematic conservation planning research and application by agencies. Article Note: Article Impact Statement: Marxan with Probability solves a wide range of conservation problems and improves ability to consider uncertainty in conservation planning. CAPTION(S): Appendix Table S1. The missing values file for MarProb1D (Marxan with Threat Probability)/MarProb2D (Marxan with Species Probability) has 8 additional fields compared to the standard Marxan missing values file. Byline: Matthew Watts, Carissa J. Klein, Vivitskaia J. D. Tulloch, Silvia B. Carvalho, Hugh P. Possingham