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

[John C. Tull]

On Nov 21, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:

> 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

I found it freely available via scholar.google.com at
http://www.geo.unizh.ch/publications/sstein/sstein_freegitools_ecoinf2009.pdf

Regards,
John