Package {prioritizrdata}

Type: Package
Version: 0.3.3
Title: Conservation Planning Datasets
Description: Conservation planning datasets for learning how to use the 'prioritizr' package https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=prioritizr.
Imports: utils, terra (≥ 1.6-53), sf (≥ 1.0-12), tibble (≥ 2.0.0)
Suggests: testthat, roxygen2, knitr
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
Language: en-US
URL: https://prioritizr.github.io/prioritizrdata/, https://github.com/prioritizr/prioritizrdata
BugReports: https://github.com/prioritizr/prioritizrdata/issues
Collate: 'package.R' 'salt_data.R' 'tas_data.R' 'wa_data.R' 'deprecated.R'
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.0.0
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-06-11 13:13:31 UTC; rschuster
Author: Jeffrey O Hanson ORCID iD [aut], Richard Schuster ORCID iD [aut, cre], Nina Morrell [aut], Matthew Strimas-Mackey ORCID iD [aut], Kristine Camille V Buenafe ORCID iD [aut], Matthew E Watts [aut], Peter Arcese ORCID iD [aut], Joseph R Bennett ORCID iD [aut], Hugh P Possingham ORCID iD [aut]
Maintainer: Richard Schuster <richard.schuster@glel.carleton.ca>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-06-11 14:20:08 UTC

prioritizrdata: Conservation Planning Datasets

Description

The prioritizrdata package is a supplemental package that contains example datasets for conservation planning. It is intended to be used alongside the prioritizr package.

Details

This package contains the following datasets:

tas_data

Conservation planning dataset for Tasmania, Australia.

salt_data

Conservation planning dataset for Salt Spring Island, Canada.

wa_data

Conservation planning dataset for Washington, United States.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Richard Schuster richard.schuster@glel.carleton.ca (ORCID)

Authors:

See Also

Useful links:

Deprecation notice

Description

The functions listed here are deprecated. This means that they once existed in earlier versions of the of the prioritizrdata package, but they have since been removed entirely, replaced by other functions, or renamed as other functions in newer versions. To help make it easier to transition to new versions of the prioritizrdata package, we have listed alternatives for deprecated the functions (where applicable). If a function is described as being renamed, then this means that only the name of the function has changed (i.e., the inputs, outputs, and underlying code remain the same).

Usage

get_wa_features()

Details

The following functions have been deprecated:

get_wa_features()

renamed as the get_wa_species() function.

Salt Spring Island data

Description

Conservation planning dataset for Salt Spring Island, Canada. It was obtained as part of an online Marxan-based planning tool created for the Coastal Douglas-fir Conservation Partnership (CDFCP; Schuster et al. 2017).

Usage

get_salt_pu()

get_salt_features()

get_salt_con()

Format

salt_pu

terra::rast() object.

salt_features

terra::rast() object.

salt_con

terra::rast() object.

Details

The following functions are provided to import data:

get_salt_pu()

Import planning unit data. The planning units are a single layer terra::rast() object. Cell values denote the monetary cost of acquiring different areas (e.g., a value of 1 = $100,000 CAD; BC Land Assessment 2015).

get_salt_features()

Import biodiversity feature data. The feature data are a multi-layer terra::rast() object object. It contains the spatial distribution of four key ecological communities. Each layer represents a different community type. These classes are (i) old forest, (ii) savanna, (iii) wetland, and (iv) shrub. For each layer, values indicate the composite probability of encountering the suite of bird species most commonly associated with that community type.

get_salt_con()

Import connectivity data. The connectivity data are a single-layer terra::rast() object. It contains the inverse probability of occurrence of human commensal species. Based on the assumption that human modified areas impede connectivity for native fauna, cells with higher values have higher connectivity.

References

BC Assessment (2015) Property Information Services. Available at https://www.bcassessment.ca/ (Date Accessed 2016/06/13).

Morrell N, Schuster R, Crombie M, and Arcese P (2017) A Prioritization Tool for the Conservation of Coastal Douglas-fir Forest and Savannah Habitats of the Georgia Basin. The Nature Trust of British Colombia, Coastal Douglas Fir Conservation Partnership, and the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Colombia. Available at https://peter-arcese-lab.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2016/09/CDFCP_tutorial_2017_05.pdf (Date Accessed 2017/10/09).

Examples

# load packages
library(terra)
library(sf)

# import data
salt_pu <- get_salt_pu()
salt_features <- get_salt_features()

# preview planning units
print(salt_pu)
plot(salt_pu)

# preview features
print(salt_features)
plot(salt_features)

# preview connectivity data
salt_con <- get_salt_con()
print(salt_con)
plot(salt_con)

Tasmania data

Description

Conservation planning dataset for Tasmania, Australia.

Usage

get_tas_pu()

get_tas_features()

Format

tas_pu

sf::st_sf() object.

tas_features

terra::rast() object

Details

The following functions are provided to import data:

get_tas_pu

Import planning unit data. The planing units are a sf::st_sf() simple features object. Each row corresponds to a different planning unit, and columns contain information about the planning units. It has columns that contain: ("id") unique identifiers and ("cost") unimproved land values for the planning units. It also contains columns ("locked_in" and "locked_out") with logical values (i.e. TRUE or FALSE values) for locking in and locking out planning units. These data obtained from the "Introduction to Marxan" course and were originally generated as part of a larger spatial prioritization Resources (Klein et al. 2007).

get_tas_features

Import biodiversity feature data. The feature data are a multi-layer terra::rast() object. classes. Each layer corresponds to a different vegetation class and contains binary cell values that indicate the presence or absence of the vegetation class. These data were obtained from the Australian Government's National Vegetation Information System (Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 2020).

References

Klein C, Carwardine J, Wilson K, Watts M, and Possingham H (2007) Spatial Prioritization Approaches for the Conservation of Biodiversity in Australia: Considering Conservation Costs, Ecological & Evolutionary Processes, and Large-Intact Areas. Report to the Department of Environment; Water Resources.

Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (2020). National Vegetation Information System. Version 6.0. Available at https://digital.atlas.gov.au/maps/national-vegetation-information-system-nvis-version-6-0-extant-vegetation.

Examples

# load packages
library(terra)
library(sf)

# load data
tas_pu <- get_tas_pu()
tas_features <- get_tas_features()

# preview planning units
print(tas_pu)
plot(tas_pu)

# plot features
print(tas_features)
plot(tas_features)

Washington data

Description

Conservation planning dataset for Washington, The United States of America.

Usage

get_wa_pu()

get_wa_locked_in()

get_wa_locked_out()

get_wa_species()

get_wa_attr()

get_wa_carbon()

Format

get_wa_pu

terra::rast() object.

get_wa_locked_in

terra::rast() object.

get_wa_locked_out

terra::rast() object.

get_wa_carbon

terra::rast() object.

get_wa_species

terra::rast() object.

get_wa_attr

tibble::tibble() object.

Details

The following functions are provided to import data:

get_wa_pu()

Import planning unit data. The planning units are a single layer terra::rast() object. Cell values denote land acquisition costs. These data were originally obtained from Nolte (2020 a,b).

get_wa_locked_in()

Import locked in data. The locked in data are a single layer terra::rast() object. Cell values denote binary values indicating if each cell is predominantly covered by protected areas (excluding those with no mandate for biodiversity protection). These data were originally obtained from USGS (2022)

get_wa_locked_in()

Import locked out data. The locked out data are a single layer terra::rast() object. Cell values denote binary values indicating if each cell is predominantly covered by urban areas. These data were originally obtained from the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (2020)

get_wa_carbon()

Import vulnerable carbon data. The carbon data a single layer terra::rast() object. Cell values denote continuous values representing the amount of carbon sequestered that is vulnerable to be released through typical land-use conversion. These data were originally obtained from the Noon et al. (2021, 2022)

get_wa_species()

Import species distribution data. The feature data are a multi-layer terra::rast() object. It contains the spatial distribution of 258 bird species. To account for migratory patterns, data are provided for the breeding and non-breeding distributions of species (indicated by "breeding" and "non-breeding" in the layer names). If a species is lacking such information, then the species is denoted with its full distribution (as indicated "full" in the layer names). These data were originally obtained from the eBird Status and Trends dataset (Fink et al. 2020). To ensure backwards compatibility with previous versions of the package, get_wa_features() can also be used to access these data.

get_wa_attr()

Import attribute data about the species. The feature attribute data are a data frame (tibble::tibble()) object. It contains taxonomic information for each feature (i.e., layer in get_wa_species()) as well as estimates of public interest (derived from Mittermeier et al. 2021) and extinction risk (based on the methodology of Davis et al. 2018 and and threat status classification data from IUCN 2025). Since Mittermeier et al. (2021) did not contain public interest scores for all features, scores were interpolated for features missing scores based on average public interest score of features that belong to the same taxonomic family. This object has the following columns:

feature

Name of the feature (i.e., ⁠per get_wa_species()⁠).

binomial

Taxonomic species and genus name of the feature.

family

Taxonomic family name of the feature.

order

Taxonomic order of the feature.

extinction_prob

Probability of extinction.

interest_score

Public interest score.

References

Commission for Environmental Cooperation. (2020). 2015 Land Cover of North America at 30 Meters. North American Land Change Monitoring System, 2nd Edition, https://www.cec.org:443/north-american-environmental-atlas/land-cover-30m-2015-landsat-and-rapideye/.

Davis M, Faurby S, and Svenning J-C (2018) Mammal diversity will take millions of years to recover from the current biodiversity crisis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115: 11262–11267.

Fink D, Auer T, Johnston A, Ruiz-Gutierrez V, Hochachka WM and Kelling S (2020) Modeling avian full annual cycle distribution and population trends with citizen science data. Ecological Applications, 30: e02056.

IUCN (2025) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2025-2. https://www.iucnredlist.org. Accessed on 13 May 2026.

Mittermeier JC, Roll U, Matthews TJ, Correia R, and Grenyer R (2021) Birds that are more commonly encountered in the wild attract higher public interest online. Conservation Science and Practice, 3: e340.

Nolte C (2020a) Data for: High-resolution land value maps reveal underestimation of conservation costs in the United States. Dryad, Dataset, doi:10.5061/dryad.np5hqbzq9.

Nolte C (2020b) High-resolution land value maps reveal underestimation of conservation costs in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117: 29577–29583.

Noon ML, Goldstein A, Ledezma JC, Roehrdanz PR, Cook-Patton SC, Spawn-Lee SA, Wright TM, Gonzalez-Roglich M, Hole DG, Rockström J, and Turner WR (2022) Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in Earth's ecosystems. Nature Sustainability, 5: 37–46.

Noon ML, Goldstein A, Ledezma JC, Roehrdanz PR, Cook-Patton SC, Spawn-Lee SA, Wright TM, Gonzalez-Roglich M, Hole DG, Rockström J, and Turner WR (2021) Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in Earth's ecosystems (2.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.4091029.

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Gap Analysis Project (GAP) (2022) Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) 3.0: U.S. Geological Survey data release, doi:10.5066/P9Q9LQ4B.

Examples

# load packages
library(terra)

# import data
wa_pu <- get_wa_pu()
wa_species <- get_wa_species()
wa_attr <- get_wa_attr()
wa_locked_in <- get_wa_locked_in()
wa_locked_out <- get_wa_locked_out()
wa_carbon <- get_wa_carbon()

# preview planning units
print(wa_pu)
plot(wa_pu)

# preview locked in
print(wa_locked_in)
plot(wa_locked_in)

# preview locked out
print(wa_locked_out)
plot(wa_locked_out)

# preview species
print(wa_species)
plot(wa_species)

# preview attributes of species
print(wa_attr)