FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Systematic conservation planning in the eastern English Channel: comparing the Marxan and Zonation decision-support tools BT AF DELAVENNE, Juliette METCALFE, Kristian SMITH, Robert J. VAZ, Sandrine MARTIN, Corinne S. DUPUIS, Ludovic COPPIN, Franck CARPENTIER, Andre AS 1:1;2:2;3:2;4:1;5:3;6:4;7:1;8:1; FF 1:PDG-RBE-HMMN-RHBL;2:;3:;4:PDG-RBE-HMMN-RHBL;5:;6:;7:PDG-RBE-HMMN-RHBL;8:PDG-RBE-HMMN; C1 Ifremer, Lab Ressources Halieut, F-62321 Boulogne Sur Mer, France. Univ Kent, DICE, Canterbury CT2 7NR, Kent, England. HCMR, Iraklion 71003, Crete, Greece. Univ Greenwich, Old Royal Naval Coll, London SE10 9LS, England. C2 IFREMER, FRANCE UNIV KENT, UK HELLEN CTR MARINE RES, GREECE UNIV GREENWICH, UK SI BOULOGNE AUTRE SE PDG-RBE-HMMN-RHBL AUTRE PDG-RBE-HMMN IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 copubli-europe IF 2.28 TC 43 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00054/16518/14088.pdf LA English DT Article CR CGFS2008 CGFS2009 CGFS2010 CGFS2011 BO Gwen Drez DE ;eastern English Channel;marine conservation planning;Marxan;spatial conservation prioritization;Zonation AB The systematic conservation approach is now commonly used for the design of efficient marine protected area (MPA) networks. Identifying these priority areas often involves using specific conservation-planning software. Several of these software programmes have been developed in recent years, each of which differs in the underlying algorithms used. Here, we investigate whether the choice of software influences the location of priority areas by comparing outputs from Marxan and Zonation, two widely used conservation-planning, decision-support tools. Using biological and socio-economic data from the eastern English Channel, we compared their outputs and showed that the two software packages identified similar sets of priority areas, even though the relatively wide distribution of the habitat types and species considered offered a great deal of flexibility. Moreover, this similarity increased with increasing spatial constraint, especially when using real-world cost data, suggesting that choice of cost metric has a greater influence on conservation-planning analyses than choice of software. However, we found that Marxan generally produced more efficient results and Zonation produced results with greater connectivity, so the most appropriate software package will depend on the overall goals of the MPA planning process. PY 2012 PD JAN SO Ices Journal Of Marine Science SN 1054-3139 PU Oxford Univ Press VL 69 IS 1 UT 000297867300010 BP 75 EP 83 DI 10.1093/icesjms/fsr180 ID 16518 ER EF