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 _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
