Provides tools for multiscale systematic conservation planning
using the H3 hierarchical hexagonal grid system (Uber Technologies (2024)
<https://h3geo.org>) and the 'prioritizr' package (Hanson et al. (2025)
<doi:10.1111/cobi.14376>). Supports the definition and solution of
conservation problems across nested H3 resolutions with resolution-specific
features, costs, and management attributes, including cross-scale
connectivity penalties derived from parent-child relationships. Includes
a multiscale minimum-set objective that allows planning units at different
resolutions to contribute toward feature representation targets while
accounting for overlapping costs and feature amounts across nested planning
units. Also includes utilities to evaluate solutions using
multiscale-aware diagnostics and to post-process optimization outputs
into alternative area-targeted conservation scenarios.
| Version: |
0.2.0 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 4.2) |
| Imports: |
sf, units, terra, raster, dplyr, tibble, Matrix, methods, prioritizr (≥ 9.0.1), Rcpp, exactextractr, stats, cli, R6, assertthat, h3jsr, rlang |
| LinkingTo: |
Rcpp |
| Suggests: |
highs, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Published: |
2026-10-14 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.MultiscaleSCP |
| Author: |
Pablo Merlo  [aut,
cre],
Oisín Callery
[aut],
Carlos Tighe [ctb],
Anthony Grehan [ctb] |
| Maintainer: |
Pablo Merlo <pablo.merlo at universityofgalway.ie> |
| License: |
MIT + file LICENSE |
| NeedsCompilation: |
yes |
| Materials: |
NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
MultiscaleSCP results |