References

Zonation-relevant references

Primarily methodological

Oldest basic Zonation references

Moilanen, A. 2007. Landscape Zonation, benefit functions and target-based planning. Unifying reserve selection strategies. Biological Conservation, 134: 571-579.

Moilanen, A., Franco, A.M.A., Early, R., Fox, R., Wintle, B., and C.D. Thomas. 2005. Prioritising multiple use landscapes for conservation: methods for large multi species planning problems. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci., 272: 1885-1891.

Three recent pieces about generally relevant methods

Moilanen, A., Anderson B.J., Eigenbrod, F., Heinemeyer, A. Roy, D.B., Gillings, S. Armsworth, P.R., Gaston, K.J. and C.D. 2011. Thomas. Balancing alternative land uses in conservation prioritization. Ecological Applications, 21: 1419–1426.

Moilanen, A. and A. Arponen. 2011. Administrative regions in conservation: Balancing local priorities with regional to global preferences in spatial planning. Biological Conservation, 144: 1719-1725.

Moilanen, A., Leathwick J.R. and J.M. Quinn. 2011. Spatial prioritization of conservation management. Conservation letters, 4: 383-393.

Community-level analysis methods

Leathwick, J.R., A. Moilanen, S. Ferrier and K. Julian. 2010. Community-level conservation prioritization and its application to riverine ecosystems. Biological Conservation, 143, 984-991.

BQP connectivity method; distribution smoothing

Moilanen, A. and B. A. Wintle. 2007. The boundary quality penalty a quantitative method for approximating species responses to fragmentation in reserve selection. Conservation Biology, 21: 355-364.

Interactions and interaction connectivity between features

Lehtomäki, J., Tomppo, E., Kuokkanen, P. Hanski, I., and A. Moilanen. 2009. Planning of forest conservation areas using high-resolution GIS data and software for spatial conservation prioritization. Forest Ecology and Management, 258: 2439-2449.

Rayfield, B., Moilanen, A. and M.-J. Fortin. 2009. Incorporating consumer-resource spatial interactions in reserve design. Ecological Modelling, 220: 725-733.

Freshwater (tree topology) connectivity

Moilanen, A., Leathwick, J.R., and J. Elith. 2008. A method for freshwater conservation prioritization. Freshwater Biology, 53: 577-592.

Uncertainty analysis, 2 papers

Moilanen, A. and B.A. Wintle. 2006. Uncertainty analysis favours selection of spatially aggregated reserve structures. Biological Conservation, 129: 427-434.

Moilanen, A., B.A. Wintle., J. Elith and M. Burgman. 2006a. Uncertainty analysis for regional-scale reserve selection. Conservation Biology 20: 1688-1697.

Applications with useful analysis setups

Design of reserve networks; big surrogacy analysis

Kremen, C., A. Cameron, A. Moilanen, S. Phillips, C. D. Thomas, H. Beentje, J. Dransfeld, B. L. Fisher, F. Glaw, T. Good, G. Harper, R.J. Hijmans, D. C. Lees, E. Louis Jr., R. A. Nussbaum, A. Razafimpahanana, C. Raxworthy, G. Schatz, M. Vences, D. R.Vieites, P. C. Wright , M. L.Zjhra. 2008. Aligning conservation priorities across taxa in Madagascar, a biodiversity hotspot, with high-resolution planning tools. Science, 320: 222-226.

Evaluation of proposed conservation areas, good example

Leathwick, J. R., Moilanen, A., Francis, M., Elith, J., Taylor, P. Julian, K. and T. Hastie. 2008. Novel methods for the design and evaluation of marine protected areas in offshore waters. Conservation Letters, 1: 91-102.

Habitat restoration planning

Thomson, J.R., Moilanen, A., McNally, R., and P. Vesk. 2009. A quantitative method for prioritizing landscape revegetation. Ecological Applications, 19: 817-828.

Application in the context of climate change

Carroll, C., Moilanen, A., and J. Dunk. 2010. Designing multi-species reserve networks for resilience to climate change: priority areas for spotted owl and localized endemics in the pacific North-West USA. Global Change Biology, 16: 891-904.

Expansion of conservation areas accounting for connectivity

Lehtomäki, J., Tomppo, E., Kuokkanen, P. Hanski, I., and A. Moilanen. 2009. Planning of forest conservation areas using high-resolution GIS data and software for spatial conservation prioritization. Forest Ecology and Management, 258: 2439-2449.

Urban environments

Gordon, A., Simondson, D., White, M., Moilanen, A., and Bekessy, S.A. 2009. Integrating conservation planning and land-use planning in urban landscapes. Landscape and Urban Planning, 91: 183-194.

Surrogacy

Franco, A.M.A., Anderson, B., Roy, D.B., Gillings, S., Fox,R., Moilanen, A., and C.D. Thomas. 2009. Surrogacy and persistence in reserve selection: landscape prioritisation for multiple taxa in Britain. Journal of Applied Ecology, 46: 82-91.

Z-relevant Book Chapters

Moilanen, A., Kujala, H. and J. Leathwick. 2009. The Zonation framework and software for conservation prioritization. Pp. 196-210 in Moilanen, Wilson and Possingham (Eds.), Spatial Conservation Prioritization, Oxford University Press.

Moilanen, A. and I. Ball. 2009. Heuristic and approximate optimization methods for spatial conservation prioritization. Pp. 58-69 in Moilanen, Wilson and Possingham (Eds.), Spatial Conservation Prioritization, Oxford University Press.

The manuals

Moilanen, A. and H. Kujala. 2006. Zonation spatial conservation planning framework and software v. 1.0, User manual, 126 pp. Edita, Helsinki, Finland.

Moilanen, A. and H. Kujala. 2008. Zonation spatial conservation planning framework and software v. 2.0, User manual, 136 pp.

Moilanen, A., Meller, L., Leppänen, J., Montesino Pouzols, F., Arponen, A. &
H. Kujala. 2012. Zonation spatial conservation planning framework and software v. 3.1,
User manual, 287 pp. ISBN 978-952-10-7893-4 (paperback), ISBN 978-952-10-7894-1 (PDF)

Other relevant bits of methods not specific to Zonation

Moilanen, A., K. A. Wilson, and H.P. Possingham, editors. 2009. Spatial Conservation Prioritization: Quantitative Methods and Computational Tools. Oxford University Press.

Mathematical classification of conservation prioritization problems

Moilanen, A., Possingham, H.P., and S. Polasky. 2009. A mathematical classification of conservation prioritisation problems. Pp. 28-42 in Moilanen, Wilson and Possingham (Eds.), Spatial Conservation Prioritization, Oxford University Press.

Community level analysis – why it works or not

Arponen, A., Moilanen, A., and S. Ferrier. 2008. A successful community-level strategy for conservation prioritization. Journal of Applied Ecology, 45: 1436-1445.

Replacement cost

Cabeza, M. and A. Moilanen. 2006. Replacement cost: a useful measure of site value for conservation planning. Biological Conservation 132: 336-342.

Moilanen, A., A. Arponen, J. Stokland and M. Cabeza. 2009. Assessing replacement cost of conservation areas: how does habitat loss influence priorities? Biological Conservation, 142: 575-585.

Generalized complementarity – dependence and independence between planning units

Moilanen, A. 2008. Generalized Complementarity and Mapping of the Concepts of Systematic Conservation Planning. Conservation Biology, 22: 1655-1658.

The ecological model and optimization: what is it that matters?

Moilanen, A. 2008. Two paths to a suboptimal solution: once more about optimality in reserve selection. Biological Conservation 141: 1919-1923.

Info-gap reserve selection

Moilanen, A., M. Runge, J. Elith, A. Tyre, Y. Carmel, E. Fegraus, B. Wintle, M. Burgman and Y. Ben-Haim. 2006. Planning for robust reserve networks using uncertainty analysis. Ecological Modelling, 119: 115-124.