Appennino: A GIS Tool for Analyzing Wildlife Habitat Use
The aim of the study was to test Appennino, a tool used to evaluate the habitats of animals through compositional analysis. This free tool calculates an animal’s habitat use within the GIS platform for ArcGIS and saves and exports the results of the comparative land uses to other statistical softwar...
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| description | The aim of the study was to test Appennino, a tool used to evaluate the habitats of animals through compositional analysis. This free tool calculates an animal’s habitat use within the GIS platform for ArcGIS and saves and exports the results of the comparative land uses to other statistical software. Visual Basic for Application programming language was employed to prepare the ESRI ArcGIS 9.x utility. The tool was tested on a dataset of 546 pheasant positions obtained from a study carried out in Tuscany (Italy). The tool automatically gave the same results as the results obtained by calculating the surfaces in ESRI ArcGIS, exporting the data from the ArcGIS, then using a commercial spreadsheet and/or statistical software to calculate the animal’s habitat use with a considerable reduction in time. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-27cb9d30b27f46b9a62caffeb0025e9c2025-02-03T01:22:04ZengWileyInternational Journal of Zoology1687-84771687-84852012-01-01201210.1155/2012/475071475071Appennino: A GIS Tool for Analyzing Wildlife Habitat UseMarco Ferretti0Marco Foi1Gisella Paci2Walter Tosi3Marco Bagliacca4Department of Animal Production, University of Pisa, Viale delle Piagge 2, 56100 Pisa, ItalyDepartment of the Earth Science, University of Milan, Via Mangiagalli 34, 20133 Milan, ItalyDepartment of Animal Production, University of Pisa, Viale delle Piagge 2, 56100 Pisa, ItalyGeographic Information System Office, Province of Pistoia, Corso Gramsci 110, 51100 Pistoia, ItalyDepartment of Animal Production, University of Pisa, Viale delle Piagge 2, 56100 Pisa, ItalyThe aim of the study was to test Appennino, a tool used to evaluate the habitats of animals through compositional analysis. This free tool calculates an animal’s habitat use within the GIS platform for ArcGIS and saves and exports the results of the comparative land uses to other statistical software. Visual Basic for Application programming language was employed to prepare the ESRI ArcGIS 9.x utility. The tool was tested on a dataset of 546 pheasant positions obtained from a study carried out in Tuscany (Italy). The tool automatically gave the same results as the results obtained by calculating the surfaces in ESRI ArcGIS, exporting the data from the ArcGIS, then using a commercial spreadsheet and/or statistical software to calculate the animal’s habitat use with a considerable reduction in time.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/475071 |
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| title | Appennino: A GIS Tool for Analyzing Wildlife Habitat Use |
| title_full | Appennino: A GIS Tool for Analyzing Wildlife Habitat Use |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Appennino: A GIS Tool for Analyzing Wildlife Habitat Use |
| title_short | Appennino: A GIS Tool for Analyzing Wildlife Habitat Use |
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