Connectivity Analysis Toolkit Beta Program

Conservation planners increasingly seek to consider both biodiversity process and pattern in reserve design. However, in part due to computational limitations, most current reserve design tools remained focused on either 1) the selection of sites that capture elements of biodiversity pattern but ignore connectivity, or 2) connectivity mapping methods that have key limitations, such as the need to identify in advance the source and target of linkages. We have developed a software ‘toolkit’ that combines several new connectivity analysis and mapping methods. These methods provide a means to quantitatively incorporate connectivity within the planning process, while overcoming some of the limitations of previous linkage mapping methods. We hope to release the software for beta testing in August-September 2010. If you would like to be informed of the availability of the beta release, please go to the
Beta release registration page