Multi-action planning for threat management: a novel approach for the spatial prioritization of conservation actions.

ABSTRACT: Planning for the remediation of multiple threats is crucial to ensure the long term persistence of biodiversity. Limited conservation budgets require prioritizing which management actions to implement and where. Systematic conservation planning traditionally assumes that all the threats in priority sites are abated (fixed prioritization approach). However, abating only the threats affecting the species of conservation concerns may be more cost-effective. This requires prioritizing individual actions independently within the same site (independent prioritization approach), which has received limited attention so far. We developed an action prioritization algorithm that prioritizes multiple alternative actions within the same site. We used simulated annealing to find the combination of actio

SUBMITTER: Cattarino L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4447389 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature