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JECAMI (Joint Ecological Continuum Analysing and Mapping Initiative - on ecological connectivity)

Author/Contact:

Dr. Ruedi Haller
Research and Geoinformation Manager
Swiss National Park
rhaller@nationalpark.ch
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Resource description:

JECAMI is an online application that facilitates the analysis of ecological connectivity in the European alpine region. Zoom to your area of interest and discover the values of different connectivity indicators in the Layers menu. If you have a kml layer of your area, just upload it to the CSI Analysis Tool and get a mean of the indicator values for this region. The Continuum Suitability Index is a combined analysis of structural landscape connectivity and landscape permeability. The landscape is considered as a Matrix where each part or patch promotes more or less the ecological connectivity. The CSI-Tool is not thought as a planning tool, but it rather gives a first insight in the initial situation.

Requirements:

  • JECAMI can be used online with a web browser.

Advantages:

  • The main goal of JECAMI is to help users better understand ecological connectivity and analyzing and barriers to wildlife movements from regional to landscape scales in the Alps.
  • Analysis tools calculate species-specific indicators that can be used to measure the ecological connectivity potential of a landscape or region within the Alps.
  • JECAMI is powerful, because it offers the user to choose among three analytic approaches depending on their needs: 1) analysis of the landscape as a whole in a continuum suitability index (CSI), 2) analysis of distribution and migration of wildlife specie

Constraints:

  • JECAMI focuses on the Alps and habitat connectivity analyses for 5 focal wildlife species.

Licence:

  • Free, no licence

Development stage:

  • Full, working product
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