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Species Distribution Modeling and Conservation Planning Workshop

In September of 2013 the CA LCC partnered with UC Davis Information Center for the Environment and Point Blue Conservation Science to offer a workshop on systematic conservation planning (see the CA LCC project description). The aim of the workshop was to present the state of the science for using spatial decision support tools to inform the conservation of plants and animals in the context of climate adaptation planning.

Presented here are the materials from the workshop, including reading lists, slide presentations, and lab exercises. These materials are free to use with attribution to the authors.
Preliminary Material

Outline of Workshop

Presentation Slides

Scenario Planning

Workshop Lab Exercises

Reading Lists and Online Resources

Complete List of Resources Mentioned in Workshop

Contributors to this article
Last Updated: 

3/2018

Type Titlesort descending Creator Date
Document A brief tutorial on Maxent Phillips, Steven 2010
Document A practical guide to MaxEnt for modeling species’ distributions: what it does, and why inputs and settings matter Merow, Cory, Smith, Matthew J., and Silander, John A. 2013
Document A review of methods for the assessment of prediction errors in conservation presence/absence models Fielding, Alan H. and Bell, John F. 1997
Document A statistical explanation of MaxEnt for ecologists Elith, Jane, Phillips, Steven J., Hastie, Trevor, Dudik, Miroslav, Chee, Yung En, and Yates, Colin J. 2011
Document A systematic approach for prioritizing multiple management actions for invasive species Januchowski-Hartley, S.R., Visconti, P, and Pressey, R. L. 2011
Document A working guide to boosted regression trees Elith, J., Leathwick, J. R., and Hastie, T. 2008
Document Achieving conservation when opportunity costs are high: optimizing reserve design in Alberta's oil sands region Schneider, Richard A., Hauer, Grant, Farr Dan, Adamowicz, W. L., and Boutin, Stan 2011
Document An interoperable decision support tool for conservation planning Segan, Daniel B., Game, Edward T., Watts, Matthew E., Stewart, Romola R., and Possingham, Hugh P. 2011
Document Application of species distribution models and conservation planning software to the design of a reserve network for the riverine fishes of northeastern Mesoamerica Esselman, Peter C. and Allan, J.D. 2011
Web Resource Avian Knowledge Network Point Blue Conservation Science
Dataset Bias Corrected and Downscaled WCRP CMIP3 Climate and Hydrology Projections Bureau of Reclamation, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Santa Clara University,Climate Central, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the U.S. Geological Survey 2007
Document Biodiversity conservation planning tools: present status and challenges for the future Sarkar, Sahotra, Pressey, Robert L., Faith, Daniel P., Margules, Christopher R., Fuller, Trevon, Stoms, David M., Moffett, Alexander, Wilson, Kerrie A., Williams, Paul H., and Andelman, Sandy 2006
Web Resource Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) U.S. Geological Survey
Document Biodiversity management in the face of climate change: A review of 22 years of recommendations Heller, Nicole E. and Zavaleta, Erika S. 2009
Dataset California Natural Diversity Database (CNDDB) California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Document Climate change and the future of California's endemic flora Loarie, Scott R., Carter, Benjamin E., Hayhoe, Katharine, McMahon, Sean, Moe, Richard, Knight, Charles A., Ackerly, David D., 2008
Web Resource Climatic Research Unit University of East Anglia
Dataset CliMond: global climatologies for bioclimatic modelling Kriticos, Darren J., Webber, Bruce L., Leriche, Agathe, Ota, Noboru, Macadam, Ian, Bathols, Janice, and Scott, John K. 2012
Document Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance Dorman, Carsten F., Elith, Jane, Bacher, Sven, Buchmann, Carsten, Carl, Gudrun, Carré, Gabriel, García Marquéz, Jaime R., Gruber, Bernd, Lafourcade, Bruno, Leitão, Pedro J , Münkemüller, Tamara, McClean, Colin, Osborne, Patrick E., and 5 others 2013
Dataset Conservation International Downscaled Climate Projections Conservation International

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