Trained by the Pacific Marine Analysis and Research Association - PacMARA, Geo4Seas proposes to conduct Marxan analyses (Watts et al., 2017).
Marxan “Marine Reserve design using eXplicit ANnealing” is a decision support tool to support conservation planning. Marxan deploys a simulated annealing heuristic algorithm generally used for planning protected area networks.
References
Watts, M. E., Stewart, R. R., Martin, T. G., Klein, C. J., Carwardine, J., & Possingham, H. P. (2017). Systematic conservation planning with Marxan. In Learning Landscape Ecology (p. 211–227). Springer.