[Lemon-user] Software released for Habitat Connectivity Analysis, incorporating LEMON-based functions

[Carlos Carroll]

LEMON users and developers may be interested in a newly-released software
for wildlife connectivity analysis that includes LEMON-based network flow
functions.
I want to thank the LEMON developer group for providing such a useful
library without which we could not have implemented much of our software's
functionality.
Due to the nature of the centrality analysis framework we are using, our
network flow analyses are the most computationally-demanding of the methods
included in the software, so I look forward to future LEMON developments
such as improved multi-threading capabilities which may help with this. We
would welcome comments (and corrections) on our approach. More information
is given below:
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The Connectivity Analysis Toolkit is a software interface that provides
conservation planners with newly-developed tools for both linkage mapping
and landscape-level 'centrality' analysis. Centrality refers to a group of
landscape metrics that rank the importance of sites as gatekeepers for flow
across a landscape network. The Toolkit allows users to develop and compare
three contrasting centrality metrics based on input data representing
habitat suitability or permeability, in order to determine which areas,
across the landscape as a whole, would be priorities for conservation
measures that might facilitate connectivity and dispersal. The Toolkit also
allows application of these approaches to the more common question of
mapping the best habitat linkages between a source and a target patch. 
The software is freely available at www.connectivitytools.org 
A detailed manual included in the download gives more background on the
methods, and may also be useful to those who are not GIS modelers but are
interested in conservation planning.
Please feel free to distribute this message to anyone who may be interested.
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Carlos Carroll, Ph.D.
Klamath Center for Conservation Research 
PO Box 104 
Orleans, CA 95556