bioLEC 0.0.4

A Python interface to compute biodiversity metric based on landscape elevational connectivity.

bioLEC - Biodiversity metric based on landscape elevational connectivity

This folder contains notebooks to compute landscape elevational connectivity described in Bertuzzo et al. (2016) using a parallel LECmetrics python code.

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Notebooks environment will not be the best option for large landscape models and we will recommand the use of the python script: runLEC.py in HPC environment. the code will need to be

mpirun -np 400 python runLEC.py

The tool can be used to compute the LEC for any landscape file (X,Y,Z) and IPython functions are provided to extract output data directly from pyBadlands model.

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E. Bertuzzo, F. Carrara, L. Mari, F. Altermatt, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe & A. Rinaldo - Geomorphic controls on species richness. PNAS, 113(7) 1737-1742, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1518922113, 2016.