Blair Csuti

TL;DR: Gap analysis as discussed by the authors identifies the gaps in representation of biological diversity (biodiversity) in areas managed exclusively or primarily for the longterm maintenance of populations of native species and natural ecosystems (hereinafter referred to as biodiversity management areas).

TL;DR: In this article, a spatially explicit landscape-level model for analyzing the biological and economic consequences of alternative land-use patterns is developed, incorporating habitat preferences, area requirements and dispersal ability between habitat patches for terrestrial vertebrate species to predict the likely number of species that will be sustained on the landscape.

TL;DR: The near-optimality, speed and simplicity of heuristic algorithms suggests that they are acceptable alternatives for many reserve selection problems, especially when dealing with large data sets or complicated analyses.

TL;DR: This note gives the mathematical formulation of what Underhill terms ‘the more realistic’ version of the reserve selection problem, namely, the problem of maximizing the number of species preserved given a fixed budget for reserve sites.