Abstract

The quantification of landscape structures is an important part in many ecological analysis dealing with GIS derived satellite data. This paper introduces a new free and open-source tool for conducting landscape ecology analysis. LecoS is able to compute a variety of basic and advanced landscape metrics in an automatized way by iterating through an optional provided vector layer. It is integrated into the QGIS processing framework and can thus be used as a stand-alone tool or within bigger complex models. Finally a potential case-study is demonstrated, which tries to quantify pollinators responses on landscape derived metrics at various scales.

Details

Title
LecoS - A QGIS plugin for automated landscape ecology analysis
Author
Jung, Martin
Publication year
2013
Publication date
Dec 9, 2013
Publisher
PeerJ, Inc.
e-ISSN
21679843
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.116v2
ProQuest document ID
1962312554
Copyright
© 2013 Jung. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.