CEMPRA Workshop

ESSA Technologies Ltd. recently hosted a workshop on the CEMPRA Tool.

• Project Overview: https://www.essa.com/explore-essa/projects/cumulative-effects-model-for-priority-of-recovery-actions-cempra/
• See link to the project here https://mattjbayly.github.io/CEMPRA_documentation/

The Cumulative Effects Model for Prioritizing Recovery Actions (CEMPRA) is a cumulative effects modelling framework. The CEMPRA tool uses a series of standardized user-defined stressor-response functions to link environmental attributes to the system capacity and productivity of a target species/system. This framework design is as generalizable, simple, and versatile as possible so that users can apply the model to various geographic regions, contexts, systems, and species. As the name suggests, the CEMPRA tool helps prioritize recovery actions for data-limited species and species-at-risk, with the flexibility to accommodate both data-rich and data-poor study systems and to facilitate and efficient transition from simple to complex modelling within a single platform as more information becomes available for a target species. The CEMPRA is intended as a low-barrier tool and is accessible as an open-source R package (https://github.com/essatech/CEMPRA) and R Shiny interactive web application (https://github.com/essatech/CEMPRAShiny).