Analysis of the threshold and expected coverage approaches to the probabilistic reserve site selection problem

Jeffrey L. Arthur, Robert G. Haight, Claire A. Montgomery, Stephen Polasky

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Abstract

Two approaches to formulating the reserve site selection problem when species occurrence data is probabilistic were solved for terrestrial vertebrates in a small set of potential reserve sites in Oregon. The expected coverage approach, which maximizes the sum of the occurrence probabilities, yielded solutions that covered more species on average in Monte Carlo simulations than the threshold approach, which maximizes the number of species for which the occurrence probability exceeds some threshold.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)81-89
Number of pages9
JournalEnvironmental Modeling and Assessment
Volume7
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002

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Keywords

  • Incomplete information
  • Reserve site selection
  • Species distributions

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