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bioLEC is a Python package designed to quickly calculate for any mountainous landscape surface and species niche width its associated LEC index. From an elevational fitness perspective, all migratory paths on a flat landscape are equal. This is not the case on a complex landscape where migration can only occur along a network of corridors providing species with their elevational requirements. Hence, predicting how species will disperse across a landscape requires a model of migration that takes into account the physical properties of the landscape, the species fitness range, as well as evolving environmental conditions.
This version is described in the JOSS paper:
- Salles, T. and Rey, P.: bioLEC: A Python package to measure Landscape Elevational Connectivity, Journal of Open Source Software, 4, 1498, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01498, 2019.