Understanding connectivity data.

Understanding connectivity data.

Understanding connectivity data. One of the challenges associated with integrating data of ecological connectivity in spatial planning is the wide variety of entities that move (e.g. organisms, genes, pollutants) and of movement processes (e.g. animal migration,...
Understanding connectivity data.

What is Marxan with Connectivity?

What is Marxan with Connectivity? The following sections are a summary of Daigle et al. 2019. Marxan with Connectivity is an extension of the Marxan software family that allows for more sophisticated connectivity considerations in spatial planning.  For example, sites...
Understanding connectivity data.

Using connectivity data in Marxan.

Using connectivity data in Marxan. There are several different quantitative methods to directly incorporate connectivity data into the standard Marxan workflow . These include: (a) treating connectivity properties of planning units as conservation features for which a...
What is Marxan with Zones?

What is Marxan with Zones?

What is Marxan with Zones? Marxan with Zones is based on the same principles standard Marxan, but allows for multiple zones, zoning contributions, costs, and the spatial relationships between zones to all be considered in spatial optimization. This tool can be applied...
What is Marxan with Zones?

Defining a zoning problem.

Defining a zoning problem. The following information is adapted from Serra-Sogas et al. 2020 and Grantham et al. 2013. Defining a zoning problem can be broken down into seven steps. These steps are specific to setting up a Marxan with Zones planning framework, and are...
The new version of Marxan MaPP has been released! Please try it here: marxanplanning.org
The new version of Marxan MaPP has been released! Please try it here: marxanplanning.org