---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Manuel Spínola <mspinol...@gmail.com> Date: 2012/3/11 Subject: Re: [R-sig-eco] Landscape ecology in R To: Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com>
Thank you Sarah and Stephen, I am in contact with Paul Galpern who developed some tutorials on landscape ecology in R (the ones that Stephen pointed out). He told me that he plan to release more in the following months. I offered him my contributions because I have some r code to develop spatially explicit occupancy models using landscape metrics, combining the raster, dismo and unmarked packages. I know that Kevin McGarigal at U Mass has some R material too. My idea with the message was to know if there is some tutorial on how to use r because many tools on landscape ecology analysis are produced as tools or extensions fro commercial software such as ArcView or ArcGis. Even open source QGIS do not have a well developed landscape analysis tools for landscape ecology, except the one developed for GRASS. Is not a bad idea to develop R material for landscape ecology. I know that there are a lot of packages or tools that can do the job but I am thinking on some good tutorials on how to combine those tools. I am an advocate of R and open source material and I am sure many in our list would like to use as teaching material. I am teaching a course on wildlife habitat evaluation (that include a lot of material on Landscape Ecology) and I am using R for the labs. The students really like to see all these analysis in R. Best, Manuel 2012/3/11 Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> > Hi Manuel, > > I've taken the liberty of adding the r-help list back to this email, even > though > you sent your reply just to me, so that others may contribute. > > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Manuel Spínola <mspinol...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Thank you Sarah, > > > > I am thinking more on habitat mapping and landscape metrics. > > Then you've probably seen the adehabitat* and SDMTools packages. > > > I have been using several packages but I would like to see something more > > integrated for teaching. It appear that there is a landscape package > but I > > am trying to see where can I download it. > > The "R Way" is to have many special-purpose packages: task views are very > useful to streamline installation. What specifically are you looking for > that > what you're using doesn't provide? > > I don't think there's a landscape package yet, just plans to create a > landscape > package, although I have no idea what's it's intended to do. > > Sarah > > > 2012/3/9 Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> > >> > >> What kind of landscape ecology analysis? There's a whole > >> task view on spatial analysis. There's another task view > >> on environmetrics. Both have material of interest to landscape > >> ecologists. There are various packages > >> that do habitat mapping, and landscape metrics, or interface > >> with GIS software. > >> > >> Landscape ecology is such a broad discipline that we need > >> more context to answer in more detail, but there's plenty of > >> relevant material. > >> > >> I'm teaching a workshop on R for landscape ecologists > >> at the US-IALE meeting next month, incidentally. > >> > >> Sarah > >> > >> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Manuel Spínola <mspinol...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > Dear list members, > >> > > >> > I am looking for any reference or material on landscape ecology > analysis > >> > in > >> > R. > >> > > >> > Thank you very much in advance. > >> > > >> > Best, > >> > > >> > Manuel > >> > > > > -- > Sarah Goslee > http://www.functionaldiversity.org > -- *Manuel Spínola, Ph.D.* Instituto Internacional en Conservación y Manejo de Vida Silvestre Universidad Nacional Apartado 1350-3000 Heredia COSTA RICA mspin...@una.ac.cr mspinol...@gmail.com Teléfono: (506) 2277-3598 Fax: (506) 2237-7036 Personal website: Lobito de río <https://sites.google.com/site/lobitoderio/> Institutional website: ICOMVIS <http://www.icomvis.una.ac.cr/> -- *Manuel Spínola, Ph.D.* Instituto Internacional en Conservación y Manejo de Vida Silvestre Universidad Nacional Apartado 1350-3000 Heredia COSTA RICA mspin...@una.ac.cr mspinol...@gmail.com Teléfono: (506) 2277-3598 Fax: (506) 2237-7036 Personal website: Lobito de río <https://sites.google.com/site/lobitoderio/> Institutional website: ICOMVIS <http://www.icomvis.una.ac.cr/> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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