feature_abundances: Feature abundances

In prioritizr: Systematic Conservation Prioritization in R

Feature abundances

Description

Calculate the total abundance of each feature found in the planning units of a conservation planning problem.

Usage

feature_abundances(x, na.rm)

## S3 method for class 'ConservationProblem'
feature_abundances(x, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

x	problem() object.
na.rm	logical should planning units with missing (NA) cost data be excluded from the abundance calculations? Defaults to FALSE.

Details

Planning units can have cost data with finite values (e.g., 0.1, 3, 100) and missing (NA) values. This functionality is provided so that locations which are not available for protected area acquisition can be included when calculating targets for conservation features (e.g., when targets are specified using add_relative_targets()). If the total amount of each feature in all the planning units is required (including the planning units with NA cost data), then use na.rm = FALSE. However, if the planning units with NA cost data should be excluded, then use na.rm = TRUE. For example, na.rm = TRUE may be useful for calculating the maximum feasible target for each feature.

Value

A tibble::tibble() object containing the total amount ("absolute_abundance") and proportion ("relative_abundance") of the distribution of each feature in the planning units. Here, each row contains data that pertain to a particular feature in a particular management zone (if multiple zones are present). This object contains the following columns.

feature

character name of the feature.

zone

character name of the zone (not included if x has a single management zone).

absolute_abundance

numeric amount of each feature in the planning units. If x has multiple zones, then this column shows how well each feature is represented in a each zone.

relative_abundance

numeric proportion of the feature's distribution in the planning units. If na.rm = FALSE, then this column will only contain values equal to one. Otherwise, if na.rm = TRUE and planning units with NA cost data contain non-zero amounts of each feature, then this column will contain values between zero and one.

See Also

The eval_feature_representation_summary() function can be used evaluate how well features are represented by a solution.

Examples

# load data
sim_pu_raster <- get_sim_pu_raster()
sim_features <- get_sim_features()

# create a simple conservation planning dataset so we can see exactly
# how the feature abundances are calculated
pu <- data.frame(
  id = seq_len(10),
  cost = c(0.2, NA, runif(8)),
  spp1 = runif(10),
  spp2 = c(rpois(9, 4), NA)
)

# create problem
p1 <- problem(pu, c("spp1", "spp2"), cost_column = "cost")

# calculate feature abundances; including planning units with NA costs
a1 <- feature_abundances(p1, na.rm = FALSE) # (default)
print(a1)

# calculate feature abundances; excluding planning units with NA costs
a2 <- feature_abundances(p1, na.rm = TRUE)
print(a2)

# verify correctness of feature abundance calculations
all.equal(
  a1$absolute_abundance,
  c(sum(pu$spp1), sum(pu$spp2, na.rm = TRUE))
)

all.equal(
  a1$relative_abundance,
  c(sum(pu$spp1) / sum(pu$spp1),
  sum(pu$spp2, na.rm = TRUE) / sum(pu$spp2, na.rm = TRUE))
)

all.equal(
  a2$absolute_abundance,
  c(
    sum(pu$spp1[!is.na(pu$cost)]),
    sum(pu$spp2[!is.na(pu$cost)], na.rm = TRUE)
  )
)

all.equal(
  a2$relative_abundance,
  c(
    sum(pu$spp1[!is.na(pu$cost)]) / sum(pu$spp1, na.rm = TRUE),
    sum(pu$spp2[!is.na(pu$cost)], na.rm = TRUE) /
      sum(pu$spp2, na.rm = TRUE)
  )
)

# initialize conservation problem with raster data
p3 <- problem(sim_pu_raster, sim_features)

# calculate feature abundances; including planning units with NA costs
a3 <- feature_abundances(p3, na.rm = FALSE) # (default)
print(a3)

# create problem using total amounts of features in all the planning units
# (including units with NA cost data)
p4 <-
  p3 %>%
  add_min_set_objective() %>%
  add_relative_targets(a3$relative_abundance) %>%
  add_binary_decisions() %>%
  add_default_solver(verbose = FALSE)

# attempt to solve the problem, but we will see that this problem is
# infeasible because the targets cannot be met using only the planning units
# with finite cost data
s4 <- try(solve(p4))

# calculate feature abundances; excluding planning units with NA costs
a5 <- feature_abundances(p3, na.rm = TRUE)
print(a5)

# create problem using total amounts of features in the planning units with
# finite cost data
p5 <-
  p3 %>%
  add_min_set_objective() %>%
  add_relative_targets(a5$relative_abundance) %>%
  add_binary_decisions() %>%
  add_default_solver(verbose = FALSE)

# solve the problem
s5 <- solve(p5)

# plot the solution
# this solution contains all the planning units with finite cost data
# (i.e., cost data that do not have NA values)
plot(s5)

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