1. 1 Federico M. Pouzols, Atte Moilanen, Joona Lehtomäki, Heini Kujala, Jarno Leppänen & Laura Meller C-BIG - Conservation Biology Informatics Group Dept. of Biosciences, University of Helsinki http://cbig.it.helsinki.fi Zonation in practice: tutorial and GUI

2. 2 Simplified Zonation workflow 1 Data collation and manual preprocessing (GIS) 2 Automated preprocessing using Zonation 3 Iterative landscape ranking (Zonation run) 4 Visualization, automated output & post-processing 5 Manual/external post-processing in GIS

3. 3 Species distributions Biodiversity distribution data 1 Spatial (static) patterns of biodiversity

4. 4 Manual pre-processing of data 2

5. 5 In the GUI, setups are included in “projects” A minimum setup requires Define a project (potentially several variants/runs) Features/species list A set of raster maps: one for each feature in the list Settings definition (if empty, defaults are used) 3 INPUT: Zonation setup

6. 6 Biodiversity feature raster Example:.tif,.img or.asc file; standard GIS formats as supported by GDAL (http://www.gdal.org/)http://www.gdal.org/ Raster showing the species occurrences and the dimensions of the raster Basic setup: one raster for each feature 3 INPUT: a set of raster maps

7. 7 3 INPUT: a set of raster grids 0101 1100 1100 11001 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 00 0 1 1 0 0 0 Example: ascii raster files (as in the tutorial)

8. 8 Biodiversity feature (e.g. species) list file text file, frequently with extension.spp for distinction List of all those biodiversity feature raster map files included in the analysis Trick: same map can entered multiple times for connectivity, retention etc. analyses More details about files, later INPUT: features/species list file (.spp) 4

9. 9 GUI: basic components Projects Process queue Results Messages (errors)

10. 10 GUI quick start: open project (.bat file) 5 Right-click or Menu: File

11. 11 GUI: run / queue a project 5 Right-click on a project

12. 12 GUI: run and visualization of results 6 Shows run status

13. 13 Output files generated automatically 7

14. 14 Zonation teaching kit Unzip and you should get:

15. 15 Teaching kit: software Self-installing binary: creates icon and menu If you choose the raw zip package, Inside 4.software: GUI

16. 16 Teaching kit: tutorial files Inside 5.tutorial_exercises:

17. 17 Our species rasters as figures: tutorial_input/species_maps_jpg 120*140 km 2 region in Hunter Valley, eastern Australia Habitat suitability for 7 species 649*555 cell grid, 200m resolution Courtesy of Dr. Brendan Wintle, University of Melbourne, and Hunter Region Organization of Councils (HROC) Tutorial: so... let’s do it! Wintle, BA, Elith, J, Potts, JM. 2005. Fauna habitat modelling and mapping: A review and case study in the Lower Hunter Central Coast region of NSW. Austral Ecology, 30(7): 719-738.

18. 18 Open Zonation GUI (zig3gui.exe) Open project: do_zig3.bat It uses: Features list file: splist.spp Settings file: set.dat Basic core-area Zonation

19. 19 Feature raster maps Species weights Other parameters (only needed for more complex analyses) Setup files: features/species list

20. 20 Setup files: settings (.dat) If empty, defaults are used

21. 21 Call Zonation: run a setup Settings file BD features list file Output files name Project: all the pieces together Setup files: Project file (.bat)

22. 22 The.spp,.dat and.bat files are actually text files that can be edited with any text editor, including notapad. The.spp and.dat extensions have been used for distinction. The.bat is the extension of a dos/windows batch command file. Note about.spp,.dat and.bat files:

23. 23 Explore settings and input files in the project tree Right-click on files to edit Expand settings and files included in an instance/setup

24. 24 Prefix of names: fourth parameter to zig3.exe Priority ranking map (raster and image:.jpg).curves.txt performance (representation) of each feature during the cell removal.run.info.txt keeps track of analyses, files and settings (details how the software runs).rank.asc,.prop.asc,.wrscr.asc, and others for post-processing in GIS Output files

25. 25 Open project do_w.bat Open features list file splist.spp (right-click -> Edit) Example: change species weights Change weights, save and re-run

26. 26 Open project do_ds.bat (then right-click -> Edit) Example: distribution smoothing Distribution smoothing: ON Factor to multiply feature- specific (dispersal) parameters

27. 27 Multiple runs in a same project Open project do_multiple.bat You can use the tutorial files as templates for your own projects

28. 28 Comprehensive manual IIntroduction IIMethods & algorithms IIIZIG – The Zonation software - Running Zonation - Input files and settings - Outputs - Post-processing IVGraphical User Interface VAnalysis setups for common planning needs VI Tutorial examples PDF or browse from GUI

29. 29 Fire up the GUI and open project do_abf.bat Explore the project tree: Display some of the input raster files open the.spp and.dat files. What’s there? Run (queue) the project Explore the results (in GUI and output files) Compare top areas with ABF (do_abf) against CAZ (do_zig3). Tip: use ”merged maps” Plot results using ”interactive plots” Things to do

30. 30 Zonation website: http://cbig.it.helsinki.fi http://cbig.it.helsinki.fi Updates, more software, comments, bugs, forum, etc.