Marxan is a stand alone program, however, there are several freely available user interfaces and other tools (described below) that can assist with running Marxan.
CLUZ – Conservation Land-Use Zoning software
Bob Smith from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent has written a user friendly front end to Marxan called CLUZ. CLUZ is an ArcView GIS interface that provides users with a dynamic connection with Marxan to run and map results. CLUZ comes with tutorial exercises that can help guide users through the basics of using Marxan.
Download CLUZ
Reserve Design Game
The reserve design game is a teaching tool that demonstrates the systematic reserve design concepts that underly Ian Ball and Hugh Possingham's Marxan program. The game was developed by Wayne Rochester and Hugh Possingham at The University of Queensland.
Play the Reserve Design Game
P.A.N.D.A. – Protected Areas Network Design Application for ArcGIS
P.A.N.D.A. is a stand-alone application developed using Visual Basic and ArcObjects. It was developed by Francesca Riolo to provide a user friendly framework for systematic protected areas network design to ARCGIS users. Through the use of P.A.N.D.A. the designer can explore different hypothetical configurations of a system of protected areas in the planning area. Conservation achievements and associated costs of each scenario are based on the available data and knowledge.
Download P.A.N.D.A
C-Plan
C-Plan is a conservation decision support software that links with GIS to map options for achieving explicit conservation targets. It was developed by Matt Watts and Bob Pressey.
Download C-Plan
NatureServe Vista
NatureServe Vista is an ArcView 9.x extension that provides a conservation planning framework from initial data and knowledge gathering to threat assessment to plan development. It contains a wizard to create input files for Marxan and import Marxan results into a planning and policy environment.
http://www.natureserve.org/vista
The Ecosystem Based Management (EBM) tools website allows users to search for dozens of tools for coastal marine and watershed ecosystem based management.
http://www.ebmtools.org
The Nature Conservancy- Protected Area Tools (PAT) software
The Nature Conservancy has a new Protected Area Tools (PAT) v. 2.0 tutorial and website. The PAT software is compatible with ArcGIS 9.2 and consists of three conservation modules: Environmental Risk Surface (ERS), Relative Biodiversity Index (RBI) and Marxan tools.
Go to PAT website and download PAT