Ackbar 0.2

A Python program to assess Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA) delimitation.

A Python program to assess Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA) delimitation. The KBA standard requires detailed information from multiple sources in order to take a practical decision about the boundaries of a new KBA. This program only considers biological data (geographic occurrences of species) to suggests and rank areas where a thorough assessment should be conducted. The output is a set of shapefiles of such areas.

Documentation

Detailed documentation (rationale, installation, and usage) is hosted at the Github wiki of the project.

Requirements

• Python 3 interpreter.

• C++ compiler.

• Shapely.

• Fiona.

• Pyproj.

• Atention to detail.

Installation

Ackbar can be installed through pip:

pip install ackbar

Usage

All parameters are parsed through a configuration file, which should be the sole argument:

ackbar.py config.txt

Config file parameters are fully explained in the project wiki page.

License

Copyright 2020 Nelson R. Salinas

Ackbar is available under the GNU General Public License version 3. See LICENSE.md for more information.

Contact

Nelson R. Salinas

Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt

[e-mail]