Connectivity Analysis Toolkit version 1.0 released

[carlos]

Connectivity Analysis Toolkit software version 1.0 has been released.
The software is freely available at www.connectivitytools.org
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.
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.