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The SIP is a tool that focuses on one species, suite of species or ecosystem. The results of the tool reflect the landscape change with respect to the focal species or ecosystem. Selection of a focal species and ecosystem will depend on the purpose of the study. There are five tools within the Smart Infrastructure Planner (SIP). The first tool is the most complex and takes the longest to run. This is call Habitat Suitability. If you have occurrence data of your focal species, you may substitute MaxEnt (Phillips et al. 2004). The second tool, Habitat Suitability Change identifies the change in habitat suitability between two different scenarios. Landscape Statistics, the third tool, calculates the area of different habitat qualities. The Patch Statistics tool calculates statistics for all of the habitat patches within the focal landscape. The fifth and final tool in the toolkit is called the Patch Distance tool and determines whether the landscape is functionally connected if your focal species has the capacity to disperse between habitat patches. All tools should be run twice; once for the current scenario and once for the future scenario, except the Habitat Suitability Change tool.
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