patch_imp: Prioritization of patches
In lconnect: Simple Tools to Compute Landscape Connectivity Metrics

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References Examples

View source: R/patch_imp.R

Prioritization of patches according to individual contribution to overall connectivity.

1	patch_imp(landscape, metric, vector_out = FALSE)

`landscape`	Object of class "lconnect" created by `upload_land`.
`metric`	String indicating the connectivity metric to use in the prioritization.
`vector_out`	TRUE/FALSE indicating if the resulting spatial object should be recorded to file.

Each patch is removed at a time and connectivity metrics are recalculated without that specific patch. Patch importance value indicates the percentage of reduction in the connectivity metric that the loss of that patch represents in the landscape. The current version only allows the use of IIC.

An object of class "pimp". This object is a list with the following values:

`landscape`	Spatial polygon object of class "sf" (package "sf") with cluster identity and importance of each polygon.
`prioritization`	Vector with patch importance in percentage.

Frederico Mestre

Bruno Silva

Saura, S., Pascual-Hortal, L. (2007). A new habitat availability index to integrate connectivity in landscape conservation planning: Comparison with existing indices and application to a case study. Landscape and Urban Planning, 83(2-3):91-103.

vec_path <- system.file("extdata/vec_projected.shp", package = "lconnect")
landscape <- upload_land(vec_path, bound_path = NULL,
                        habitat = 1, max_dist = 500)
importance <- patch_imp(landscape, metric = "IIC")
plot(importance)