Processing visual survey data with sampley

Post provided by Jonathan Syme Picture this idyllic scene: You’re on a research vessel that is steadily making its way through the vast blue sea, surveying back and forth along a set of transect lines, its track recorded by a GPS. Through your binoculars, you see a column of spray, an arching back, a fluke that rises high above the water, then disappears. You call … Continue reading Processing visual survey data with sampley

NLMpy: a python software package for the creation of neutral landscape models

In this video Thomas Etherington shows how to use the NLMpy Python package to create neutral landscape models.  The video demonstrates how the paper’s Supporting Information documentation, Python scripts, and GIS data can be used to create a the example neutral landscape models that are shown in the paper. Recognising that some ecologists may not be very familiar with Python, the authors have also created … Continue reading NLMpy: a python software package for the creation of neutral landscape models