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Target species

Planning diagnostics

A species selected to translate ecological objectives into spatially explicit planning requirements and to test whether a landscape provides the conditions necessary for a specified biological or ecological outcome. Target species may be selected because they represent particular ecological requirements, processes, movement needs, vulnerabilities, or spatial scales; their role is diagnostic rather than necessarily indicating that the species itself is the principal conservation objective.

Sanderson, E. W., Redford, K. H., Vedder, A., Coppolillo, P. B., & Ward, S. E. (2002). A conceptual model for conservation planning based on landscape species requirements. Landscape and Urban Planning, 58(1), 41–56.