[Qgis-user] Ecological toolbox for QGIS - collecting ideas

[Alex Mandel]

Anne Ghisla wrote:
> Hi all, and sorry for cross-posting,
> 
> during QGIS hackfest the idea of an ecological toolbox has popped up,
> thanks mainly to Johannes Signer.
> Among currently available standalone bundles, we thought about Hawth's
> tools [0] and some other Arc* plugins; other tools, like Conefar [1]
> and Circuitscape [2], are dedicated GIS clones and could not cover all
> analysis requirements, therefore obliging the user to switch among
> different programs.
> We'd like to ask ecology researchers, teachers and students what are
> the most common analyses you run, and if you'd like to have the
> related tools available for QGIS in a toolbox just like for example
> GRASS toolbox.
> 
> Thanks for feedback, and feel free to forward the message to relevant
> people and mailing lists!
> Anne Ghisla
> 
> [0] http://www.spatialecology.com/htools/tooldesc.php
> [1] http://www.conefor.org/
> [2] http://www.circuitscape.org/Circuitscape/Welcome.html

For those who have access to Academic Journals, there might be some good
background reading in
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2009.07.004
Steiniger 2009 Free and open source geographic information tools for
landscape ecology. Ecological Informatics

There are some references to other articles that catalog Landscape
Ecological GIS tools that researchers use (whether or not they exist in
the software)

Anyone have time to read through and make a list of tools?

Alex