SecSel, a new software tool for conservation prioritization that is applicable to ordinal-scale data for multiple biodiversity features.

ABSTRACT: SecSel, a protected-area prioritization tool, has been developed to help design areas that efficiently protect multiple features, including conservation of biodiversity and use of ecosystem services. The prioritization by SecSel is based on evaluation of the local units of each feature. The evaluation metrics should be quantitative but need not be ratio scale. The minimum requirement of the input data is that they are ordinal. The conservation target is the number of local units with high values of each feature to be protected in the area. SecSel can handle conflicts among features, including conflicts between conservation and utilization of land or specific ecosystem functions. Before the selection procedure, one of a conflicting pair of features in a site is discarded. That decision is b

SUBMITTER: Akio T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8301630 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature