MARXAN site selection analysis results

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Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: The Wildlands Project

Publication_Date: July 2006

Title: MARXAN site selection analysis results

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: shapefile

Series_Information:

Series_Name:

Adirondacks to Acadia: A Wildlands Network Design for the Northern Appalachians

Other_Citation_Details:

Carroll, C. 2005. Carnivore Restoration in the Northeastern U.S. and Southeastern Canada: A Regional-Scale Analysis of Habitat and Population Viability for Wolf, Lynx, and Marten (Report 2: Lynx and Marten Viability Analysis). Wildlands Project Special Paper No. 6. Richmond, VT: Wildlands Project. 46 pp. <http://www.klamathconservation.org/publications.html>

Online_Linkage: www.wildlandsproject.org

Description:

Abstract:

This data set is the output of MARXAN site selection work performed by The Wildlands Project. We assembled three major tracks of data to perform these analyses: Ecological Variation, Focal Species, and Special Elements.

To represent the variation in ecological conditions that exists across the region we used a data layer of Ecological Land Units (ELUs) developed by The Nature Conservancy. ELUs are unique combinations of elevation, geology and landform - that are important to the distribution and abundance of ecological communities in the ecoregion.

We used data from a focal-species analysis, performed by Carlos Carroll, that identified areas of high quality (source) habitat for three species of carnivores: Canada lynx, American marten, and eastern gray wolf. All three species are native to the study area but are considered threatened or extirpated in some or all of the region. Vertebrate carnivores were used as focal species because they are vulnerable or sensitive to human activities and human-induced landscape change.

For our special elements track we used a geographic data layer of modeled occurrences of small to moderately-sized, high quality ecosystems developed by The Nature Conservancy. This database consisted of nine ecosystem types: open wet basins, pine barrens, open dry flats, beach dune, river systems/coves, floodplains, forested wetlands, steep slopes and cliffs, and summits.

MARXAN, a program used for site selection, was used to find a set of planning units that met our conservation goals while minimizing cost. In our study, we created hexagonal planning units of 10 km2. We populated these hexagons with spatial data from our 181 conservation features (162 for environmental variation, 9 for special elements, and 10 for focal species and set conservation goals. Hexagons containing more than 75% of currently protected areas (GAP 1 and 2) were locked into every solution. Hexagons containing more than 50% urban areas were locked out of every solution. We created 12 distinct scenarios with varying levels of goal setting (high, high-medium, medium, low) and 3 levels of boundary length modifier (a measure of fragmentation.

This data set represents the average MARXAN score for each hexagon averaged over all 12 scenarios. A hexagon with a score of 100 was included in every run in every scenario. A hexagon with a score of zero was never included in any scenario.

Purpose:

The ouputs of the MARXAN analyses performed by The Wildlands Project are indicators of biological importance - or irreplaceability - in the Northern Appalachians. Combined with local expert input and the locations of TNC's Tier 1 Matrix blocks, these outputs were the driving force in creating TWP's Wildlands Network Design. This Network Design, which identifies a functionally linked set of conservation areas, was designed to preserve the ecological integrity of the Greater Northern Appalachian Ecoregion.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: July, 2006

Currentness_Reference: publication date

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -80.907030

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -58.903529

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 49.525400

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.746099

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus:

REQUIRED: Reference to a formally registered thesaurus or a similar authoritative source of theme keywords.

Theme_Keyword:

MARXAN, Site Selection, Focal Species, Representation, Special Elements, Connectivity

Place:

Place_Keyword:

Northern Appalachian Ecoregion, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island

Access_Constraints: None

Use_Constraints:

This data set was created from the manipulation, analysis, and/or synthesis of publicly available data sources. The copying and distribution of this data set is allowed. Commercial use of this data set is prohibited. This data set must be cited on all electronic and hard copy products using the language of the Data Set Credit.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: The Wildlands Project

Contact_Person: Charlie Bettigole

Contact_Position: GIS Analyst

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 860-921-8249

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: charlie@wildlandsproject.org

Data_Set_Credit: The Wildlands Project, 2005

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Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Source_Scale_Denominator: Varied

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Focal Species

Source_Contribution:

Adapted from Carrol 2003 and Carrol 2005 (Wildlands Project Special Papers 5 and 6)

Carroll, C. 2003. Impacts of Landscape Change on Wolf Viability in the Northeastern U.S. and Southeastern Canada: Implications for Wolf Recovery. Wildlands Project Special Paper No. 5. Richmond, VT: Wildlands Project. 31 pp.

Source_Information:

Source_Scale_Denominator: 90 meter

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: ELU

Source_Contribution: Ecological Land Units developed by The Nature Conservancy

Source_Information:

Source_Scale_Denominator: 90 meter

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Special Elements

Source_Contribution: Modeled occurences developed by The Nature Conservancy

Process_Step:

Process_Description: Dataset copied.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: C:\GIS\Carnivore_Data_DVD_2007\GeoC\Lynx\lynx_c1_base

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Attribute_Label: FID

Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.

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Attribute:

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Attribute:

Attribute_Label: PU

Attribute_Definition: hexagon planning unit unique ID

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: BEST_1

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the best run under a MARXAN scenario of Low Goals for all tracks with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0. Scores should be either 0 or 1.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: BEST_2

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the best run under a MARXAN scenario of Low Goals for all tracks with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0.0011. Scores should be either 0 or 1.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: BEST_3

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the best run under a MARXAN scenario of Low Goals for all tracks with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0.01. Scores should be either 0 or 1.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: BEST_4

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the best run under a MARXAN scenario of Medium Goals for all tracks with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0. Scores should be either 0 or 1.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: BEST_5

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the best run under a MARXAN scenario of Medium Goals for all tracks with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0.001. Scores should be either 0 or 1.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: BEST_6

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the best run under a MARXAN scenario of Medium Goals for all tracks with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0.01. Scores should be either 0 or 1.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: BEST_7

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the best run under a MARXAN scenario of Medium Goals for the focal species track and the special elements track and High Goals for the representation track with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0. Scores should be either 0 or 1.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: BEST_8

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the best run under a MARXAN scenario of Medium Goals for the focal species track and the special elements track and High Goals for the representation track with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0.001. Scores should be either 0 or 1.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: BEST_9

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the best run under a MARXAN scenario of Medium Goals for the focal species track and the special elements track and High Goals for the representation track with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0.01. Scores should be either 0 or 1.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: BEST_10

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the best run under a MARXAN scenario of High Goals for all tracks with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0. Scores should be either 0 or 1.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: BEST_11

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the best run under a MARXAN scenario of High Goals for all tracks with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0.001. Scores should be either 0 or 1.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: BEST_12

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the best run under a MARXAN scenario of High Goals for all tracks with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0.01. Scores should be either 0 or 1.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: BEST_ALL

Attribute_Definition:

This attribute represents the summed value of all best runs 1-12. Scores should be between 0 and 12.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SUM_1

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the summed runs (of 100 runs) under a MARXAN scenario of Low Goals for all tracks with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0. Scores should vary from 0-100.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SUM_2

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the summed runs (of 100 runs) under a MARXAN scenario of Low Goals for all tracks with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0.001. Scores should vary from 0-100.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SUM_3

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the summed runs (of 100 runs) under a MARXAN scenario of Low Goals for all tracks with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0.01. Scores should vary from 0-100.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SUM_4

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the summed runs (of 100 runs) under a MARXAN scenario of Medium Goals for all tracks with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0. Scores should vary from 0-100.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SUM_5

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the summed runs (of 100 runs) under a MARXAN scenario of Medium Goals for all tracks with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0.001. Scores should vary from 0-100.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SUM_6

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the summed runs (of 100 runs) under a MARXAN scenario of Medium Goals for all tracks with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0.01. Scores should vary from 0-100.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SUM_7

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the summed runs (of 100 runs) under a MARXAN scenario of Medium Goals for the focal species track and the special elements track and High Goals for the representation track with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0. Scores should vary from 0-100.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SUM_8

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the summed runs (of 100 runs) under a MARXAN scenario of Medium Goals for the focal species track and the special elements track and High Goals for the representation track with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0.001. Scores should vary from 0-100.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SUM_9

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the summed runs (of 100 runs) under a MARXAN scenario of Medium Goals for the focal species track and the special elements track and High Goals for the representation track with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0.01. Scores should vary from 0-100.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SUM_10

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the summed runs (of 100 runs) under a MARXAN scenario of High Goals for all tracks with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0. Scores should vary from 0-100.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SUM11

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the summed runs (of 100 runs) under a MARXAN scenario of High Goals for all tracks with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0.001. Scores should vary from 0-100.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SUM_12

Attribute_Definition:

This represents the summed runs (of 100 runs) under a MARXAN scenario of High Goals for all tracks with the Boundary Length Modifier set at 0.01. Scores should vary from 0-100.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SUM_ALL

Attribute_Definition:

This attribute represents the summed value of all summed runs 1-12. Scores should vary from 0-1200.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: sum_sum

Attribute_Definition:

This attribute represents the mean MARXAN score for each planning unit averaged over summed runs 1-12. Scores should vary from 0-100.

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