1. Student Number: 3685530 ESS 333 practical Faculty: Arts November 2018
Cambodia
Student Number:
ESS 333 practical
Faculty: Arts
November 2018
Please use this template to answer your Practical Exam Question. Ensure you have YOUR STUDENT NUMBER on the Title Page and this PowerPoint file is renamed to reflect your student number and the country you analysed. The completed PowerPoint needs to be put onto a computer and you attach your name to the computer. The data includes that downloaded from IUCN Red Data List, DIVA GIS, WWF Ecoregions, Protected Planet, and ESRI. You may add images but please credit/attribute them using an in-text numbering system and a reference list on the final page.
BCB/ESS
Kingdom of Cambodia

2. Introduction location
Prepare a location map using your GIS with a title, scale bar, North direction, a comprehensive legend and a figure caption. Your map should include neighbouring countries and their Capital cities. please include an overview map.

3. Biodiversity description andthreats
The Tonle Sap Great Lake is a unique ecosystem of enormous ecological value.. It is a key breeding ground for fish, and is home to globally important colonies of endangered water birds, as well as reptiles, mammals and water snakes. It is the largest seasonally flooded freshwater swamp forest habitat in Southeast Asia.
The lake's ecosystem is highly productive, with this productivity in large part dependent on a 'flood pulse' from the Mekong, which replenishes nutrients in the lake and enriches the floodplain.
Introduction
Biodiversity Description: In summarized point form describe the country's biodiversity capital (assets) and threats to its biodiversity conservation. YOU MAY USE SEVERAL SLIDES TO EXPLAIN THIS SECTION.

4. The Northern Plains of Cambodia are the largest remaining intact block of a unique landscape that once covered much of Indochina. Dominated by open deciduous forest, grasslands, and seasonal wetlands, the area has been described as the Asian equivalent of the African savannas. It maintains a community of large mammals and wetland birds found nowhere else in the world.
There are also many globally important populations of threatened mammal species in the Northern Plains

5. The largest species is the Asian Elephant, which is found mostly in evergreen and riverine forest, and there are also two species of wild cattle (Gaur and Banteng). These three species have an important ecological role in keeping open trapping or water holes and maintaining patches of open ground around these key sites as these are important for many threatened bird species. Other mammals found in the Northern Plains landscape include Dhole, Eld's Deer and Sambar.

6. CURRENT PROTECTED AREAS
Methods
Prepare a map of the current Protected Areas Network. The prepared map should include a title, scale bar, North direction, a comprehensive legend and a fully descriptive caption. DO NOT DISTORT THE MAPS.

7. CONSERVATION TARGETS Percentage and Species penalty factors
Methods
Prepare a map of Conservation Targets: Identify at least TEN potential conservation targets that are suitable for a national conservation plan for your selected country in the context of their contribution to a global biodiversity conservation strategy. Targets need to be prepared as individual Boolean RASTER distribution maps. Please provide Species Penalty Factors for each Target. YOU WILL USE SEVERAL SLIDES TO SHOW these Conservation Targets. The folder contains zipped files that you select from or you can go to the IUCN Red data website to get other data ( ).
The prepared maps should include a title, scale bar, North direction, a comprehensive legend and a fully descriptive caption. DO NOT DISTORT THE MAPS.

8. CONSERVATION planning units (ecological)
Methods
Prepare maps representing BOTH SYSTEMATIC and ECOLOGICAL PLANNING UNITS. You should prepare ONE slide for each type of Planning Units and explain how you prepared the Planning Units. The prepared map(s) should include a title, scale bar, North direction, a comprehensive legend and a fully descriptive caption. DO NOT DISTORT THE MAPS

9. CONSERVATION planning units (Systematic)
Methods
Prepare maps representing BOTH SYSTEMATIC and ECOLOGICAL PLANNING UNITS. You should prepare ONE slide for each type of Planning Units and explain how you prepared the Planning Units. The prepared map(s) should include a title, scale bar, North direction, a comprehensive legend and a fully descriptive caption. DO NOT DISTORT THE MAPS.

10. CONSERVATION planning tenure Evaluating Protected areas
Methods
Prepare a Conservation Planning Tenures Map to ASSESS the efficiency of the EXISTING Protected Area Network: This needs to be prepared as a SINGLE ANNOTATED map which should include a title, scale bar, North direction, a comprehensive legend and a fully descriptive caption. DO NOT DISTORT THE MAPS.

11. CONSERVATION planning Explaining Marxan
Methods
Prepare a Conservation Planning Tenures Map to ASSESS the complement (what needs to be added) to the EXISTING Protected Area Network: This needs to be prepared as a SINGLE ANNOTATED map which should include a title, scale bar, North direction, a comprehensive legend and a fully descriptive caption. DO NOT DISTORT THE MAPS.

12. Systematic CONSERVATION planning Explaining Marxan
Systematic conservation planning approach was used because the ecological planning did not work
Planning units were created(hexagon planning units)
A planning unit Tenure map was created called PU_Tenure map
A PU_Tenure paassess map is created
Use the National treasure website to select endemic and endangered species
Download spatial data of these species as shape files of more than 40 occurences
Run Marxan at 50% target range using all this information that has been retrieved
Methods
Use this slide and simple drawings or flow diagrams to explain the core concepts of MARXAN. You should not use the IDRISI dialogue boxes. Ensure you use proper annotation and include a descriptive caption.

13. Systematic CONSERVATION planning Explaining Marxan
Marxan input output
Planning unit layer: hexagon of country
Add raster group of your conservation target
Select target percentage
Penalty factor (spf): 10
Auto fill spec.type
Enable planning unit layer (tenure + transformed layer)
Boundary length file enabled
Output prefix is marxan conservation %
Click Continue
Methods
In summarized point form describe the parameter options you should select for the final RUN of the MARXAN analysis. You may use dialogue boxes to explain this section. (You do not need to run MARXAN as it would take too long to do the runs).

14. Marxan parameters
Boundary length modifier: 2
Repeat runs: 1000
Species missing if proportion of target lower than: 0.95
Run mode: Apply simulated annealing followed by iterative improvement
Annealing controls

15. Number of iterations:
Temperature decreases: 1000
Iterative improvement type: normal iterative improvement
Cost threshold
Threshold Enabled
Threshold: 1600
Penalty factor A: 9
Penalty factor B: 2
Starting proportion is 0

16. Expected Results Systematic CONSERVATION planning
Explain using Diagrams the results you would expect to obtain from MARXAN. They do not need to be the actual results rather the form of the MARXAN outputs you would expect. You may use more than one slide to prepare this section.

17. Sources of data, attribution and acknowledgements
GIS-DIVA
ArcView
Idrisi Selva
References
Ensure you provide full credit to source of information, Programs used, and referencing/attribution of referenced material. You may use more than one slide to prepared this section.