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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Resource | Web Soil Survey | Natural Resource Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture | |
| Web Resource | Data Basin | Conservation Biology Institute | |
| Web Resource | USGS Regional and Global Climate Data | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Dataset | PRISM Climate Data | PRISM Climate Group | |
| Web Resource | NatureServe Explorer | NatureServe | |
| Web Resource | Global Biodiversity Information Facility | Global Biodiversity Information Facility | |
| Article | Systematic Reserve Design | Hollander, A. H. | |
| 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 | Systematic conservation planning | Margules, C.R. and Pressey, R. L. | 2000 |
| Document | Generalized linear and generalized additive models in studies of species distributions: setting the scene | Guisan, Antoine, Edwards, Thomas C. Jr., and Hastie, Trevor | 2002 |
| Document | Prioritizing multiple-use landscapes for conservation: methods for large multi-species planning problems | Moilanen, Atte, Franco, Aldina M. A., Early, Regan I., Fox, Richard, Wintle, Brendan, and Thomas, Chris D. | 2005 |
| Document | Sensitivity of conservation planning to different approaches to using predicted species distribution data | Wilson, K. A., M. I. Westphal, H. P. Possingham, and J. Elith | 2005 |
| Document | Using multivariate adaptive regression splines to predict the distributions of New Zealand's freshwater diadromous fish | Leathwick, J.R., Rowe, D., Richardson, J., Elith, J. and Hastie, T. | 2005 |
| Document | Selecting thresholds of occurrence in the prediction of species distributions | Liu, Canran, Berry, Pam M., Dawson, Terence P., and Pearson, Richard G. | 2005 |
| Document | Predicting species distribution: offering more than simple habitat models | Guisan, Antoine, Edwards, and Thullier, Wilfried | 2005 |
| Document | Novel methods improve prediction of species' distributions from occurrence data | Elith, Jane, Graham, Catherine H., Anderson, Robert P., Dudík, Miroslav, Ferrier, Simon, Guisan, Antoine., Hijmans, Robert J., Huettmann, Falk, Leathwick, John R., Lehmann, Anthony, Li, Jin, Lohmann, Lucia G., Loiselle, Bette A., and 13 others | 2006 |
| 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 |
| Document | Replacement cost: A practical measure of site value for cost-effective reserve planning | Cabeza, Mar and Moilanen, Atte | 2006 |