How do I define the Penalty Factor for the conservation target list?
The Penalty Factor of each conservation target is, in a manner of speaking, a way to prioritize and weight among the conservation target list. This value will, based on its value increase or decrease the value of the penalty factor of the conservation target relative to its goals and the other conservation targets being optimized for. So, if you have 5 conservation targets, and one of them is a very important conservation target, you want to make sure that this target meets its goal. To ensure that SPOT concentrates its optimization on this target rather than the others, increase the value of the Penalty Factor for this conservation target. If all 5 conservation targets are the same, then allocate a value of 1 in the Penalty Factor. Do note that if you allocate a value of 0, your penalty factor cost essentially is zero (and the other two variables predominante the calculations). Use values from 0 to 1 as a start, but if you want to make one conservation target more important, then incr
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