Methods for calculating Protection Equality for conservation planning

conservation targets
Author

Chauvenet, Kuempel, McGowan, Beger, Possingham

Published

February 15, 2017

The published paper is available on-line. The R package used to calculate the Protection Equality metric can be found here.

We developed the ProtectEqual R package to easily implement the protection equality metric. This metric measures the evennes of habitat representation in protected areas.

To install the package use devtools::install_github(“AChauvenet/ProtectEqual”)

Protection Equality curve

Media coverage

The Altmetric Attention Score for a research output provides an indicator of the amount of attention that it has received.