Python based GIS tools for landscape genetics: Visualising genetic relatedness and measuring landscape connectivity

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 52-55

  Etherington, Thomas R ^a,b  

^a FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

ArcGIS; Geographic information system; Least cost modelling; Python

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867663308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2010.00048.x     Document Type: Article

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