Conservation Planning

What is Conservation Planning?
Conservation planning is an area of natural resource management, biology and computer sciences that attempts to develop scientific or unbiased ways to understand how to plan for the organization of features across the landscape in a way that will maximize the possibilities and opportunities for the long-term sustainability of ecosystems.

What is it useful for?

• Identification of priority sites for conservation
• Identification of representation gaps across systems of protected areas
• Identification of species, communities and ecosystems needing particular conservation attention

Ongoing projects at www.ecoinformatica.cl

• Gap analysis of endangered species and ecosystems in the XIV Region of Chile
• Analysis of the importance of private protection areas for the protection of endangered species in the XIV Region of Chile

These projects are currently lead by Horacio Samaniego with Karina Godoy.
Please contact them for further information.

Genetic characterization of species
useful to identify and classify biodiversity on the base of their genetic differentiation. "Barcoding" has emerged as an important tool to classify species on a global scale (see http://www.barcodeoflife.org/content/about/what-dna-barcoding) without relying exclusively on morphology.
These projects are lead by Dominique Alò