Development of a composite code for SGCN Priority

[ChristopherTracey]

Currently, SGCN in the PAWAP are assigned a rank within each four conservation priorities goals as described below:

• Category 1: Contribute to the conservation of globally or regionally important species.
• Category 2: Prevent common species from becoming at-risk
• Category 3: Maintain rare native species.
• Category 4: Reduce knowledge gaps to better assess conservation status of species.

These ranks range from 1 to 6, with one being the highest priority, we need to develop a single (?) score for these four goals that indicates the overall conservation priority for this tool. This should be a value that can be include in the overall multiplicative AIS.

[ChristopherTracey]

Talked with Cathy a bit on 9/13--difficult to do for sure due to a number of technical reasons. Decided to move ahead with weighting based on the highest (which is actually the lowest) value across any of the four SWAP category fields.

For a test, we found the minimum across the four category columns using the following code: aoi_sgcn[, "CAT_min"] <- apply(aoi_sgcn[, 10:13], 1, min) Then we took the inverse of this to calculate the final CAT_Weight score that ranges from 0 to 1, with 1 being the highest priority SGCN.