Conducts Analyses Informing Ecosystem Restoration Decisions
Time-averaged restoration project outcomes
Identifies "best buy" actions
Finds cost-effective frontier
Plots cost-effectiveness and incremental cost analysis
Computes Habitat Suitability Index with Arithmetic Mean
Computes Habitat Suitability Index based on Model-Specified Equation
Habitat Suitability Index with Geometric Mean
Habitat Suitability Index with Minimum
Plots habitat suitability index curves
Habitat Suitability Index with a Weighted Arithmetic Mean
Computes Habitat Quality, Quantity, and Units
Computes Suitability Indices
Three sets of data and functions for informing ecosystem restoration decisions, particularly in the context of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. First, model parameters are compiled as a data set and associated metadata for over 300 habitat suitability models developed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS 1980, <https://www.fws.gov/policy-library/870fw1>). Second, functions for conducting habitat suitability analyses both for the models described above as well as generic user-specified model parameterizations. Third, a suite of decision support tools for conducting cost-effectiveness and incremental cost analyses (Robinson et al. 1995, IWR Report 95-R-1, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers).