Locating and protecting critical reserve sites to minimize expected and worst-case losses |
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Authors: | Jesse Rush O’Hanley Richard L Church |
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Institution: | a Kent Business School, University of Kent, Wye Campus, Wye, Ashford TN25 5AH, United Kingdom b Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060, USA c Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, 207 Giannini Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-3310, USA |
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Abstract: | There has been much recent interest in the development of systematic reserve selection methods that are capable of incorporating uncertainty associated with site destruction. This paper makes a contribution to this line of research by presenting two different optimization models for minimizing species losses within a planning region. Given limited acquisition budgets, the first minimizes expected species losses over all possible site loss patterns outside the reserve network while the second minimizes maximum species losses following the worst-case loss of a restricted subset of nonreserve sites. By incorporating the uncertainty of site destruction directly into the decision planning process, these models allow a conservation planner to take a less defensive and more strategic view of reserve selection that seeks to minimize species losses through the targeted acquisition of high-value/high-risk sites. We compare both of these methods to a more standard approach, which simply maximizes within reserve representation without regard for the varied level of threat faced by different sites and species. Results on a realistic dataset show that significant reductions in species losses can be achieved using either of these more intelligent modeling frameworks. |
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Keywords: | Reserve selection Habitat loss Site loss uncertainty Expected loss Worst-case loss Maximum covering Reserve scheduling Bilevel programming |
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