There are some explicit statements that marxan is the most widely used piece of conservation planning software in the world. Pdf systematic conservation planning with marxan researchgate. As marxan is among the most widely used conservation planning tools throughout the world and its outputs serve as decision support for land managers and conservation practitioners alike, the appalachian lcc is dedicated to building the technical capacity for its use. This assessment used marxan to underpin a systematic conservation planning approach in papua new guinea. A conservation feature could be a species, habitat type etc. Pdf operationalizing ecological connectivity in spatial. Two major generic approaches to spatial conservation planning are embodied by the software packages marxan ball et al. Marxan is the most widely used conservation planning. It can support the design of a network of areas for protection in marine, terrestrial, and freshwater environments. Marxan is a conservation planning optimization tool software1 that delivers decision support for reserve system design.
Applying a systematic conservationplanning tool with real. Activity 6 maps of species in the exercises resource materials course notes and source code. The things which do not fall into the simple costconstraint categories are not dealt with by the marxan software but by the designer. Decision science for conservation spatial planning activities activity 1. This is the main repo for the marxan web systematic conservation planning tool and provides access to the following. Our aim is to help conservation practitioners incorporate connectivity into the widelyused decisionsupport tool, marxan. Marxan provides decision support to a range of conservation planning problems, including the design of new reserve systems.
It is the most popular systematic reserve software used in the world, and has been applied to conserving the great barrier reef, australia, farallon islands, callifornia, and east kalimantan, indonesia, among. Salt spring island has fewer land parcels to choose from, and as a result marxan may be forced to consider parcels with lower conservation value in order to meet its targets. Each planning unit contains one or more conservation features, indicated by the coloured squares in the grey box inside the planning unit. Ituses asimulated annealingalgorithm becauseof its ability to. Marxan is software designed to aid systematic reserve design on conservation planning. Marxan is a suite of tools designed to help decision makers find good solutions to conservation planning problems. Marxan is the most frequently used conservation planning software.
Marxan connect henceforth the app is a graphical user interface gui to help conservationists include connectivity in their protected area network planning. As with other decision support software, marxans role is to support decisionmaking. Marxan connect allows a wide group of users to incorporate directional ecological connectivity into conservation planning with marxan. It can be used for onscreen planning and also acts as a link for the marxan conservation planning software. Developed by the university of queensland in australia, it supports spatial decisionmaking about the design of terrestrial, marine, andor aquatic reserves and management areas. Marxan and marzone are command line interface application for windows, mac and linux operating systems. In this paper we describe a substantial extension of marxan called marxan with zones, a decision support tool that provides landuse zoning options in geographical regions for biodiversity conservation. This tool provides repeatable procedures and is flexible enough for natural resource management application in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine systems. Marxan with zones noaa office for coastal management. Marxan is the most widely used decision support software for conservation planning globally. You can add or remove planning units by clicking on them with the mouse. This includes free software that can be used to solve several types of planning problems and extensive documentation and examples describing a framework for approaching conservation planning. It is the most widely used conservation planning tool globally.
Marxan is one of the most widely used conservation and resource use planning tool globally. Marxan is a conservation software tool that, depending on the particular target and constrains of input data, produces spatial reserve systems for conservation purposes. Third, applying marxan as optimization software is only a part of the comprehensive concept of systematic conservation planning. Marxan is the most widely used conservation planning software in the world with over 2600 individuals and 1500 organisational users in 110 countries. Marxan is the most widely used software in the world for creating marine and terrestrial protected area systems.
Marxan is freely available conservation planning software. The goal was to identify sets of areas that meet explicit targets aligned with international and national policies, particularly the convention on biological diversitys aichi target 11 which aims to protect 17% of terrestrial ecosystems. Marxan finds reasonably efficient solutions to the problem of selecting a. Marxan is the most widely used conservation planning software in the world managing more than 5 per cent of the earths surface. This is done by forcing planning units into the system before the software is applied or. In return for the free provision of c plan, if you write about c plan, use c plan or give a talk about c plan, we request that you cite the book chapter below pressey, r. Systematic conservation planning with marxan springerlink. Marxan is the most widely used conservation planning software in the world and is designed for solving complex conservation planning problems in landscapes and seascapes. The spatial scale which you choose has the potential to greatly alter the solutions that marxan produces. Marxan is a tool to guide systematic multiobjective planning. Marxan connect was conceptualized in response to the growing need for connectivity to be incorporated into conservation planning on the land and sea.
Its used in 184 countries to build marine and terrestrial conservation systems and is the global leader in conservation land and sea use planning software. A web app for systematic conservation planning marxanio login run marxan. With the use of stochastic optimisation routines simulated. Marxan is the most widely used conservation planning software in theworldwithover2600individualsand1500organisationalusers in 110countries. An interoperable decision support tool for conservation planning. This opensource software helps users design new conservation areas, report performance of existing conservation areas, and develop multipleuse zoning plans for natural resource management. Marxan is a conservation planning software that allows a systematic approach to the design of efficient conservation areas.
Operationalizing ecological connectivity in spatial. Marxan can be a very powerful tool, but if misused it can undermine a great deal of hard work in collecting and collating good data, not to mention providing misleading advice and undermining the credibility of systematic conservation planning software. It provides decision support to a range of conservation planning problems, including the design of new reserve systems, reporting on the performance of existing reserve systems, and developing multipleuse zoning plans for natural resource management. National protected area systems analysis marxan analysis. I hope this is sufficient, and i admit the article is better as a result. With the use of stochastic optimisation routines simulated annealing it generates spatial reserve systems that achieve particular biodiversity representation goals with reasonable optimality. National protected area systems analysis marxan analysis introduction on of the main components of the npapsp analysis was a marxan analysis.
Free and open source used by ngos, universities and governments in more than 180 countries. It was developed by bob smith and funded by the uk governments darwin initiative. You can import your datasets, run marxan, edit parameters, run parameter tests, and visualise output maps, figures, and tables. The software based decision support tool marxan v 2. Marxan is a software, widely used for systematic selection and designation of. Cluz conservation landuse zoning software is a qgis plugin that allows users to design protected area networks and other conservation landscapes and seascapes. We have developed the software, based on a single test data set. Marxan is a standalone software program that provides decision support to teams of conservation planners and local experts identifying efficient areas that combine to satisfy a number of ecological, social and economic objectives.
Marxan is reserve selection software that was developed to identify efficient, nearoptimal spatial solutions to conservation planning. Because conservation planning is an important job skill for conservation and resource managers, you should understand the principles involved even if you dont use this software in your job and even if you use software other than marxan for systematic conservation planning. Hello fellow wikipedians, i have just modified 3 external links on marxan. Marxan is software that delivers decision support for reserve system design. The solutions provided by marxan connect, combined with ecologically relevant post.
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