Climate velocity can inform conservation in a warming world

I Brito-Morales, JG Molinos, DS Schoeman… - Trends in ecology & …, 2018 - cell.com
Climate change is shifting the ranges of species. Simple predictive metrics of range shifts
such as climate velocity, that do not require extensive knowledge or data on individual …

R package gdistance: Distances and routes on geographical grids

J van Etten - Journal of Statistical Software, 2017 - jstatsoft.org
The R package gdistance provides classes and functions to calculate various distance
measures and routes in heterogeneous geographic spaces represented as grids. Least-cost …

Advances and challenges in ecological connectivity science

AR Liczner, R Pither, JR Bennett… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Maintaining and restoring ecological connectivity will be key in helping to prevent and
reverse the loss of biodiversity. Fortunately, a growing body of research conducted over the …

Information theory of decisions and actions

N Tishby, D Polani - Perception-action cycle: Models, architectures, and …, 2010 - Springer
The perception–action cycle is often defined as “the circular flow of information between an
organism and its environment in the course of a sensory guided sequence of actions …

Predicting the continuum between corridors and barriers to animal movements using Step Selection Functions and Randomized Shortest Paths

M Panzacchi, B Van Moorter, O Strand… - Journal of Animal …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The loss, fragmentation and degradation of habitat everywhere on Earth prompts increasing
attention to identifying landscape features that support animal movement (corridors) or …

Modelling the geographical origin of rice cultivation in Asia using the rice archaeological database

F Silva, CJ Stevens, A Weisskopf, C Castillo, L Qin… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
We have compiled an extensive database of archaeological evidence for rice across Asia,
including 400 sites from mainland East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia. This dataset is …

Models of settlement hierarchy based on partial evidence

A Bevan, A Wilson - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2013 - Elsevier
The modelling of past settlement and landscape structure from incomplete evidence is a well-
established archaeological agenda. This paper highlights a model of spatial interaction and …

The potential and limits of optimal path analysis

I Herzog - Computational approaches to archaeological spaces, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
In the last two decades an increasing number of archaeological least-cost path (LCP)
studies have been published. LCP analysis recently has become part of the predictive …

Agglomerative clustering via maximum incremental path integral

W Zhang, D Zhao, X Wang - Pattern Recognition, 2013 - Elsevier
Agglomerative clustering, which iteratively merges small clusters, is commonly used for
clustering because it is conceptually simple and produces a hierarchy of clusters. In this …

landgenreport: a new r function to simplify landscape genetic analysis using resistance surface layers

B Gruber, AT Adamack - Molecular Ecology Resources, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We describe functions recently added to the r package popgenreport that can be used to
perform a landscape genetic analysis (LGA) based on landscape resistance surfaces, which …