Connected reserve design with sampled spanning trees

An interactive demonstration of the framework in Lerner et al. (2026).

Samples drawn0
Current cost--
Best cost--
Connectivity--

Ready. Choose targets, then sample a tree to begin.

Best connected reserve lowest feasible cost
landscape selected
Current sampled reserve this tree
landscape selected
Selection frequency across runs
never
often
Acquisition cost low to high
low
high
Old forest relative reward
low
high
Wetland relative reward
low
high
Shrubland relative reward
low
high

Habitat representation

The green fill indicates the share of each feature captured by the current connected reserve. The marker is the requested target.