Recognising the need for a citable description of new methods and techniques in ecology and evolution, our Application papers describe new software, equipment, or other practical tools, with the intention of promoting and maximising the uptake of these new approaches.
So says Methods in Ecology and Evolution. And some of the methods and tools are going to be useful in the study of agricultural biodiversity too. Take, for example
Simapse — Simulation Maps for Ecological Niche Modelling, a free and opensource application written in Python and available to the most common platforms. It uses Artificial Neural Newtowrks (ANNs) with back-propagation to build spatially explicit distribution models from species data (presence ⁄ absence, presence-only and abundance).
See what I mean?
