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
- Proposal for Developing Training Curriculum on Conservation in the Face of Climate Change
- Invitation to Analysts' Workshop
- Invitation to Managers' Workshop
Outline of Workshop
Presentation Slides
- Understanding and Assembling Environmental Data for Model Input for Analysts
- Invasive Species for Analysts
- Maxent Overview for Analysts
- Systematic Reserve Design for Analysts
- Landscape Connectivity and Urbanization for Analysts
- Understanding and Assembling Environmental Data for Model Input for Managers
- Invasive Species for Managers
- Maxent Overview for Managers
- Systematic Reserve Design for Managers
- Landscape Connectivity and Urbanization for Managers
Scenario Planning
- Notes from a workshop on structured decision making
- Modules from a USFWS workshop on scenario planning for climate change adaptation
Workshop Lab Exercises
- Systematic Conservation Planning - Understanding and Assembling Model Input Data
- Systematic Conservation Planning - Maxent Exercise
- Systematic Conservation Planning - Climate Change Exercise
- Data for Systematic Conservation Planning Exercises
- Marxan Exercises
Reading Lists and Online Resources
- Reading list for analysts' workshop
- Reading list for managers' workshop
- Reading list of Marxan case studies
- Online resources (websites and datasets)
Complete List of Resources Mentioned in Workshop
Last Updated:
3/2018
| Type | Title | Creator |
Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Document | Predicting willingness-to-sell and its utility for assessing conservation opportunity for expanding protected area networks | Guerrero, Angela M., Knight, Andrew T., Grantham, Hedley S., Cowling, Richard M., and Wilson, Kerrie A. | 2010 |
| Document | Modelling with stakeholders to integrate biodiversity into land-use planning – Lessons learned in Réunion Island (Western Indian Ocean) | Lagabrielle, Erwann, Botta, Aurélie, Daré, Williams, David, Daniel, Aubert, Sigrid, and Fabricius, Christo | 2010 |
| Document | Identifying conservation areas on the basis of alternative distribution data sets | Underwood, Jared G., D'agrosa, Caterina, and Gerber, Leah R. | 2010 |
| 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 | A systematic approach for prioritizing multiple management actions for invasive species | Januchowski-Hartley, S.R., Visconti, P, and Pressey, R. L. | 2011 |
| Document | Raising the bar for systematic conservation planning | Langford, William T., Gordon, Ascelin, Bastin, Lucy, Bekassy, Sarah A., White, Matt D., and Newell, Graeme | 2011 |
| Document | Rethinking species' ability to cope with rapid climate change | Hof, Christian, Levinsky, Irina, Araújo, Miguel B., and Rahbek, Carsten | 2011 |
| Document | Incorporating climate change adaptation into national conservation assessments | Game, Edward T., Lipsett-Moore, Geoffrey, Saxon, Earl, Peterson, Nate, and Sheppard, Stuart | 2011 |
| Document | Toward best practices for developing regional connectivity maps | Beier, Paul, Spencer, Wayne, Baldwin, Robert F., and McRae, Brad H. | 2011 |
| Document | Identifying habitat conservation priorities and gaps for migratory shorebirds and waterfowl in California | Stralberg, Diana, Cameron, D. Richard, Reynolds, Mark D., Hickey, Catherine M., Klausmeyer, Kirk, Busby, Sylvia M., Stenzel, Lynne E., Shuford, W. David, and Page, Gary W. | 2011 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
| Document | Ecosystem services in conservation planning: targeted benefits vs. co-benefits or costs? | Chan, Kai M. A., Hoshizaki, Lara, and Klinkenberg, Brian | 2011 |
| Document | Uncertainty in coarse conservation assessments hinders the efficient achievement of conservation goals | Hermoso, Virgilio and Kennard, Mark J. | 2012 |
| Document | Likelihood analysis of species occurrence probability from presence-only data for modelling species distributions | Royle, J. Andrew, Chandler, Richard B., Yackulic, Charles, and Nichols, James D. | 2012 |
| Document | Using niche models with climate projections to inform conservation management decisions | Schwartz, Mark W. | 2012 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Document | Methods and workflow for spatial conservation prioritization using Zonation | Lehtomäki, Joona, and Moilanen, Atte | 2013 |