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 | 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 | Identifying conservation areas on the basis of alternative distribution data sets | Underwood, Jared G., D'agrosa, Caterina, and Gerber, Leah R. | 2010 |
| Document | Systematic conservation planning: an updated protocol | Sarkar, Sahotra, and Illoldi-Rangel, Patricia | 2010 |
| Document | Spatial scale effects on conservation network design: trade-offs and omissions in regional versus local scale planning | Huber, Patrick R., Greco, Steven E., and Thorne, James H. | 2010 |
| Document | Simulating the effects of using different types of species distribution data in reserve selection | Carvalho, Silvia B., Brito, José C., Pressey, Robert L., Crespo, Eduardo, and Possingham, Hugh P. | 2010 |
| Document | The art of modelling range-shifting species | Elith, Jane, Kearney, Michael, Phillips, Steven | 2010 |
| Document | A brief tutorial on Maxent | Phillips, Steven | 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 | 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 | Spatial marine zoning for fisheries and conservation | Klein, Carissa Joy, Steinback, Charles, Watts, Matthew, Scholz, Astrid J. and Possingham, Hugh P. | 2009 |
| Document | Species distribution models: ecological explanation and prediction across space and time | Elith, Jane and Leathwick, John R. | 2009 |
| Document | Setting conservation priorities | Wilson, Kerrie A., Carwardine, Josie and Possingham, Hugh P. | 2009 |
| Document | Biodiversity management in the face of climate change: A review of 22 years of recommendations | Heller, Nicole E. and Zavaleta, Erika S. | 2009 |
| Document | When do conservation planning methods deliver? Quantifying the consequences of uncertainty | Langford, William T., Gordon, Ascelin, and Bastin, Lucy | 2009 |
| Document | The projection of species distribution models and the problem of non-analog climate | Fitzpatrick, Matthew C., and Hargrove, William W. | 2009 |
| Document | Marxan with Zones: software for optimal conservation based land- and sea-use zoning | Watts, Matthew E., Ball, Ian R., Stewart, Romola S., Klein, Carissa J., Wilson, Kerrie, Steinback, Charles, Louival, Reinaldo, Kircher, LIndsay, and Possingham, Hugh P. | 2009 |
| Document | Planning for persistence in marine reserves: a question of catastrophic importance | Game, Edward T., Watts, Matthew E., Wooldrdge, Scott, and Possingham, Hugh P. | 2008 |
| Document | Modeling of species distributions with Maxent: new extensions and a comprehensive evaluation | Phillips, Steven J. and Dudik, Miroslav | 2008 |
| Document | A working guide to boosted regression trees | Elith, J., Leathwick, J. R., and Hastie, T. | 2008 |
| 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 |