Landscape planning

4 important questions on Landscape planning

What are some of the applications of landscape planning?

  1. Reserve network design
  2. Reserve network expansion
  3. Environmental impact avoidance
  4. Targeting of habitat restoration
  5. Balancing between biodiversity features and alternative land uses
  6. Planning under climate change
  7. etc.

Explain the simplified workflow of zonation

  • Load a number of feature layers
  1. Ecosystem type
  2. Species richness
  3. Species range
  4. Urban areas
  5. Costs of the land
  6. Etc.
  • Assign weights of importance to each layer
  • Tell the model if connectivity is important
  • Run the model
  • Outputs are a map

What are the 2 commonly used cell removal rules for zonation?

Core-area Zonation (CAZ):
  • Marginal loss is the (weighted) maximum value within the cell, across all features.
  • Cell with the smallest maximum value will be removed.

Additive benefit function (ABF):
  • Marginal loss is the weighted sum of values across features within the cell.
  • Cell with the smallest total value will be removed.
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Explain the boundary length penalty (BLP) and how to calculate final cell value.

  • BLP = boundary length (omtrek vlak) / area size (aantal blokjes in vak)
  • ΔBLP = old BLP - new BLP
  • Final cell value = value - ΔBLP

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