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LandScape Corridors (LSCorridors) is a free and open-source package developed in Python 2.7 that simulates multiple functional ecological corridors. It uses a resistance surface map to generate multiple corridors between multiple source-target locations inside the map. To accomplish that, it uses species habitat requirement information and a least-cost path algorithm. The package also includes stochasticity at different levels and enables different simulation methods. The software runs in a GRASS GIS environment (currently, GRASS 7.0.x).

The package runs in Ubuntu Linux (version 12.04 or later) and Windows (XP, 7, 8) platforms, but versions for MacOS will also be made available soon.

LSCorridors was developed and is maintained by the Spatial Ecology and Conservation Lab (LEEC), at Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil.

Authors:

• John Wesley Ribeiro <[email protected]>
• Milton Cezar Ribeiro <[email protected]>

Contributors:

• Bernardo B. S. Niebuhr <[email protected]>
• Juliana Silveira dos Santos <[email protected]>
• Felipe Martello <[email protected]>
• Pavel Dodonov <[email protected]>

Please cite LSCorridors when using the software in your work:

Ribeiro, J. W.; Santos, J. S.; Dodonov, P.; Martello, F.; Niebuhr, B. B.; Ribeiro, M. C. 2017. LandScape Corridors (LSCorridors): a new package for modeling ecological corridors based on landscape patterns and species requirements. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12750.

LandScape Corridors (LSCorridos) is Copyright, 2015-2016 by John W. Ribeiro and Milton C. Ribeiro, and licensed under terms of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2). This includes all software, documentation, and associated materials.

LSCorridors is free and open source software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the license, or (at your discretion) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details here.

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