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Help with general analysis / intern
2 weeks 4 days ago #81
by julleber
Help with general analysis / intern was created by julleber
Dear all,I recently discovered the Fragstats program online and would like to use it for my current project. I am a student completing an internship in Remote Sensing and GIS, and my goal is to conduct a general analysis of habitat fragmentation on an island in Greece. The analysis will not focus on a specific species, but rather on a broader level.From my understanding, Fragstats offers metrics that operate at different levels, and I believe the class level would be the most appropriate for my research. I also plan to use Sentinel-2 satellite imagery as the basis for my analysis. Since edge effects can vary greatly between species, I plan to exclude this aspect from my study.As I am still developing my knowledge of habitat fragmentation, I would greatly appreciate any advice or suggestions you might have regarding specific metrics or considerations that could enhance my analysis.Thank you in advance for your help.Best wishes,
Antonia
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1 week 6 hours ago #644
by kmcgee
Replied by kmcgee on topic Help with general analysis / intern
This is a difficult question to answer briefly in this forum as most, if not all, of the class level metrics are designed to address different aspects of fragmentation. I don't want to recommend specific metrics since that really depends a lot on the specific objectives and the user and ease of interpretation. However, I would suggest, given your broad interest fragmentation in general, to pick one or two metrics from each group of metrics and then, post-hoc, look for both consistencies and redundancies. In the end, I have found that a minimum of, say, 6 metrics and a maximum of, say, 12 metrics would be useful in the end for such an analysis. Also, I wouldn't dismiss the edge metrics outright. Remember, many of the metrics either directly or indirectly deal with edge effects. You are correct that habitat is a species-specific phenomenon, but that would apply to all habitat fragmentation metrics. Clearly, edge depths for the core area metrics would be difficult to apply without a clear species or ecological process in mind, so that might be the only group that I might dismiss, but even that group could be used with a fixed edge depth to assess the fragmentation from a comparative standpoint. Anyways, just a few thoughts to help you get started, but ultimately there is no short cut around getting familiar with the various metrics before conducting the final analysis.
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