LANDISLINK: A Software Tool to Automate Running both Linkages and LANDIS

       For further information about LANDISLINK development, contact Dr. Weimin Xi (xi@tamu.edu)

     Brief Overview (See a poster  )   

• LANDISLINK is a software tool, developed at the Knowledge Engineering Laboratory at Texas A&M University, to automatically run both Linkages and LANDIS, and bring in additional functionalities of rescaling species establishment coefficients (SEC) and analyzing species abundance. 

• Software Features:

  1) Linkages: to output the biomass and grab them in a LANDIS input format

  2) Biomass Reader: to read the biomass from the Linkages outputs, and store in a LANDIS input format

  3) Scale Coefficients: to rescale the biomass values within a suitable range under the users' decision

  4) LANDIS: to generate a series of *.gis files for each distinct sub-region or eco-region.

  5) Species Analyst: to analyze the species abundance and output it in a spread sheet (eg. Excel)

• Highlights of LANDISLINK include:

  1) Friendly graphic interface, 2) View input conveniently, 3) Load parameters quickly, 4) Tabulate biomass

  5) Define paths flexibly

• The Principal Investigator of the Texas A&M University LANDIS-II application project: Dr. Robert Coulson. The LANDISLINK developing team includes: Rahul Ravikumar, Dr. Andrew Birt, and Dr. Weimin Xi.

     Acknowledgements

• Funding for the development of LANDISLINK has been provided by the Ecology, Biology and Management of Bark Beetles and Invasive Forest Insects of Southern Conifers Unit, the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station.

• We thank Robert Scheller (Conservation Biology Institute) for developing LANDIS-II and providing Linkages code.

 

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