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From: Manuel Spínola <mspinola10@gmail.com>
Date: 2012/3/11
Subject: Re: [R-sig-eco] Landscape ecology in R
To: Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee@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.goslee@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 <mspinola10@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.goslee@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 <mspinola10@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
>



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-- 
*Manuel Spínola, Ph.D.*
Instituto Internacional en Conservación y Manejo de Vida Silvestre
Universidad Nacional
Apartado 1350-3000
Heredia
COSTA RICA
mspinola@una.ac.cr
mspinola10@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/>

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