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Clark Labs Publishes New Focus Paper on Species Distribution Modeling with IDRISI's Land Change Modeler 1/25/11 Worcester, MA -- Clark Labs at Clark University has recently published a Focus Paper on species distribution modeling with the Land Change Modeler application in their IDRISI GIS and Image Processing software. Species distribution modeling is a technique which generates a representation of the relationship between the presence of a species and a set of environmental factors. It then extrapolates the relationship to other locations to create maps of habitat suitability or maps of a species’ geographic range. Species distribution modeling has become increasingly important, for instance, to predict the impact of climate and environmental change on the distribution of organisms, conservation planning, and disease vector mapping. This new Focus Paper provides a general overview of the Mahalanobis Typicalities species distribution modeling technique, one of many that are included within IDRISI. It features a case study of modeling the Brown-Throated Sloth in South America. The IDRISI GIS and Image Processing software's Land Change Modeler application includes a wide variety of tools geared towards biodiversity and conservation planning in the context of land change. Developed in partnership with Conservation International, the software provides a robust toolset for land change analysis and prediction, and an automated workflow for the specific requirements of ecologists. |
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