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 | Identifying conservation areas on the basis of alternative distribution data sets | Underwood, Jared G., D'agrosa, Caterina, and Gerber, Leah R. | 2010 |
| Document | Selecting thresholds for the prediction of species occurrence with presence-only data | Liu, Canran, White, Matt, and Newell, Graeme | 2013 |
| Web Resource | Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Document | Systematic conservation planning: an updated protocol | Sarkar, Sahotra, and Illoldi-Rangel, Patricia | 2010 |
| Document | Novel climates, no-analog communities, and ecological surprises | Williams, John W. and Jackson, Stephen T. | 2007 |
| Document | Modeling climate change impacts on tidal marsh birds: restoration and conservation planning in the face of uncertainty | Veloz, Samuel D., Nur, Nadav, Salas, Leonardo, Jongsomjit, Dennis, Wood, Julian, Stralberg, Diana, and Ballard, Grant | 2013 |
| 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 | Ecosystem services in conservation planning: targeted benefits vs. co-benefits or costs? | Chan, Kai M. A., Hoshizaki, Lara, and Klinkenberg, Brian | 2011 |
| Document | Species distribution models: ecological explanation and prediction across space and time | Elith, Jane and Leathwick, John R. | 2009 |
| Web Resource | LANDFIRE | U.S. Forest Service | |
| 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 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 | Rethinking species' ability to cope with rapid climate change | Hof, Christian, Levinsky, Irina, Araújo, Miguel B., and Rahbek, Carsten | 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 | Methods and workflow for spatial conservation prioritization using Zonation | Lehtomäki, Joona, and Moilanen, Atte | 2013 |
| 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 | California Natural Diversity Database (CNDDB) | California Department of Fish and Wildlife | |
| Dataset | Conservation International Downscaled Climate Projections | Conservation International | |
| Dataset | WorldClim - Global Climate Data | Hijmans, Robert J., Cameron, Susan E., and Parra, Juan L. | |
| 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 |