Python based GIS tools for landscape genetics: visualising genetic relatedness and measuring landscape connectivity

Summary 1. Landscape genetics is an area of research that can help to understand many spatial ecological processes, but requires significant interdisciplinary collaboration. Use of geographic information system (GIS) software is essential, but requires a degree of customisation that is often beyond...

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Published in:Methods in ecology and evolution Vol. 2; no. 1; pp. 52 - 55
Main Author: Etherington, Thomas R.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2011
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Subjects:
ArcGIS
Genetics
geographic information system
Geographic information systems
least‐cost modelling
Python
Remote sensing
ISSN:2041-210X, 2041-210X
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Summary:Summary 1. Landscape genetics is an area of research that can help to understand many spatial ecological processes, but requires significant interdisciplinary collaboration. Use of geographic information system (GIS) software is essential, but requires a degree of customisation that is often beyond the non‐specialist. 2. To help address this, a series of Python script based GIS tools have been developed for use in landscape genetics studies. 3. The scripts convert files, visualise genetic relatedness, and measure landscape connectivity using least‐cost path analysis. The scripts are housed in an ArcToolbox that is freely available along with the underlying Python code. 4. The Python scripts allow researchers to use more current software, provide the option of further development by the user community, and reduce the amount of time that would be spent developing common solutions.
Bibliography:Present address: School of Environment, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
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ISSN:2041-210X
2041-210X
DOI:10.1111/j.2041-210X.2010.00048.x