Journal article
Identifying optimal solutions between competing economic and conservation land use objectives for species that require widely distributed resources
Environmental Modelling & Software, Vol.148, Art. 105292
2022
Abstract
Across the world, wildlife must coexist with humans in modified and increasingly fragmented landscapes but balancing the competing land use objectives of economic production and conservation is challenging. Multi-objective optimisation and spatial conservation prioritisation can inform land use planning but have not yet explicitly accounted for the way species access multiple resources at different locations in a landscape. Here, we demonstrate a novel approach for conservation prioritisation that accounts for the spatial distribution of different resources as well as a species' movements. This suite of tools and models identifies Pareto-optimal solutions to competing objectives of economic production on the one hand, with conserving a species’ food, drink and shelter requirements and movement corridors on the other. We demonstrate the broader functionality of these tools using a case study with competing objectives of clearing land for mining versus conservation of a vulnerable endemic species.
Details
- Title
- Identifying optimal solutions between competing economic and conservation land use objectives for species that require widely distributed resources
- Authors/Creators
- S. Mastrantonis (Author/Creator) - The University of Western AustraliaM.D. Craig (Author/Creator) - The University of Western AustraliaR.J. Hobbs (Author/Creator) - The University of Western AustraliaA.H. Grigg (Author/Creator) - Alcoa (Australia)M. Renton (Author/Creator) - The University of Western Australia
- Publication Details
- Environmental Modelling & Software, Vol.148, Art. 105292
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Identifiers
- 991005545334707891
- Copyright
- © 2021 Elsevier B.V.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Environmental and Conservation Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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