Conservation approaches in tiger landscapes have focused on single species and their habitat. Further, the limited extent of existing protected area network India lacks representativeness, habitat connectivity, integration larger landscape. Our objective was to identify sites important for connected biodiversity potential Greater Panna Landscape, central India. we aimed set targets at landscape...

Conversion of wild habitats to human dominated landscape is a major cause of biodiversity loss. An approach to mitigate the impact of habitat loss consists of designating reserves where habitat is preserved and managed. Determining the most valuable areas to preserve in a landscape is called the reserve design problem. There exists several possible formulations of the reserve design problem, de...

Ecosystem distributions are expected to shift as a result of global warming, raising concerns about the long-term utility of reserve systems based on coarse-filter ecosystem representation. We tested the extent to which proportional ecosystem representation targets would be maintained under a changing climate by projecting the distribution of the major ecosystems of Alberta, Canada, into the fu...

introduction several methods have been developed to aid in selecting a network of biodiversity protected areas. one of these methods is artificial intelligence which includes a number of different computer algorithms that use an objective function to find the best solution. an algorithm is a mathematical process or a set of rules used for problem solving. recently, site selection algorithms hav...

This paper considers participatory modelling to integrate biodiversity conservation into land use planning and to facilitate the incorporation of ecological knowledge into public decision making for spatial planning. Réunion Island has experienced rapid urban and agricultural expansion, which threaten its unique biodiversity. In this context, we designed three participatory modelling sequences,...

Systematic land use planning to address environmental impacts does not typically include human health and wellbeing as explicit inputs. We tested the effects of including issues related health, ecosystem services, community on outputs a standard process which is primarily focused variables. consulted regional stakeholders identify that have links in Sacramento, California region potential indic...

Recent studies have shown that conservation gains can be achieved when the spatial distributions of biological benefits and economic costs are incorporated in the conservation planning process. Using Alberta, Canada, as a case study we apply these techniques in the context of coarse-filter reserve design. Because targets for ecosystem representation and other coarse-filter design elements are d...

Multiple ocean sectors compete for space and resources, creating conflicts but also opportunities to plan synergistic outcomes that benefit multiple sectors. Planning management are increasingly informed by qualitative quantitative methods assessing multi-sector interactions identify trade-offs synergies among with the environment, there is a need critically review alignment of these tools requ...

Abstract Context Connectivity between habitat patches is vital for ecological processes at multiple scales. Traditional metrics do not measure the scales which individual contribute to overall connectivity of landscape. has previously been evaluated several different based on dispersal capabilities particular organisms, but these approaches are data-heavy and conditioned just a few species. Obj...