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# Consequences of under-explored variation in biodiversity indices used for land-use prioritization

# Authors
Christopher L. Crawford [\*1], Lyndon D. Estes [2], Timothy D. Searchinger [1], and David S. Wilcove [1, 3]

\*Corresponding Author, @chriscra, [email protected], Robertson Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
1. Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2. Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA
3. Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

## Overview

This repository houses scripts with data and analyses for:
> Crawford C.L., Estes L.D., Searchinger T.D., and Wilcove, D.S. 2021. Consequences of under-explored variation in biodiversity indices used for land-use prioritization. *Ecological Applications.*
> Crawford C.L.[\*1], Estes L.D., Searchinger T.D., and Wilcove, D.S. 2021. Consequences of under-explored variation in biodiversity indices used for land-use prioritization. *Ecological Applications.*
\*Corresponding Author, @chriscra, [email protected], Robertson Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

We explore how variation in the design of biodiversity indices affects the outcome of land-use prioritization. We use the [`agroEcoTradeoff`](https://github.com/PrincetonUniversity/agroEcoTradeoff) land-use prioritization model (Estes and Spiegel 2016), a trade-off model designed to identify areas for agricultural expansion that meet a given production target at the least environmental cost, and apply the model to a case study in Zambia. The [`agroEcoTradeoff`](https://github.com/PrincetonUniversity/agroEcoTradeoff) model allows users to minimize four constraints -- 1) biodiversity loss, 2) total agricultural area (maximizing yields), 3) carbon loss, and 4) transportation costs. Our analysis focuses on how biodiversity loss is modeled: specifically, we assess agreement between the least biodiverse areas in Zambia as identified by biodiversity indices that vary in their construction. We explore results for a wide range of criteria and methods that biologists and land-use planners have used, including: published composite indices, vertebrate taxonomic groups, metrics of species richness, methods for combining layers, and spatial resolutions.

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