Results showing average opportunity cost for 1,000 Marxan runs for each planning scenario.

The constraint/target that 5% of the distribution of all features needs to be within the Conservation Zone (no-take zone) was unable to be reached for nine species. This constraint was removed for these species so targets could all be met. This table shows the opportunity cost of each planning scenario, the percentage of biodiversity targets met in the scenario and the percentage of “no-take area” surface coverage of the entire reserve system. For a description of planning scenarios see Table 2.
Targets were set according to IUCN criteria and the size of a species distribution range (as described in the methods section).