Biohotspot

Biohotspot is a free web app for marine planning, built in Western Australia by The University of Western Australia's NTLP centre with Oceanwise Australia and AI4WA. This connector lets Claude use it as you, after you sign in to Biohotspot.

What Claude can do with it:

• Look at any place or area on the sea and list the map layers with data there, from more than 1,600 world layers on habitats, biodiversity, pressures, ecosystem services and protection.
• Check an area against its protection targets: which habitats it holds, how much of each, what is already protected and how far each habitat is from its target.
• Run Marxan protection options on the example project, Exmouth Gulf in Western Australia.
• Find map layers and read their features.
• Get the facts about an Australian marine park: CAPAD 2024 area, zones and IUCN categories, and the habitats, blue carbon and pressures measured inside it, each figure with its source and licence.
• Search a research library of more than 5,200 papers and reports.
• Read your Biohotspot projects and add data to the ones you can edit, from a public download link.

Who it is for: marine planners, park managers, consultants, researchers and students.

Limits: outside places with local planning data, area checks come from world maps and are marked as rough. Marxan runs cover the example project only. Marine park facts cover Australian parks of at least 10 km² with enough open data. Results are estimates from the data available, not legal or planning advice.