Circuitscape

Modeling movement and gene flow of plants and animals, as well as identifying areas important for connectivity conservation.
https://github.com/Circuitscape/Circuitscape.jl

Category: Biosphere
Sub Category: Terrestrial Wildlife

Keywords

animal-movement circuit-analysis climate-change epidemiology forest-fire julia julia-language landscape-ecology landscape-genetics movement-ecology sparse-linear-systems

Keywords from Contributors

geo ecology gdal geospatial-data arrays connectivity julia-package circuitscape circuit-theory unconstrained-optimization

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Algorithms from circuit theory to predict connectivity in heterogeneous landscapes

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/Circuitscape/Circuitscape.jl
• Owner: Circuitscape
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-02-01T16:43:36.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2026-04-09T21:25:58.000Z (22 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2026-04-19T16:02:38.615Z (12 days ago)
• Topics: animal-movement, circuit-analysis, climate-change, epidemiology, forest-fire, julia, julia-language, landscape-ecology, landscape-genetics, movement-ecology, sparse-linear-systems
• Language: Julia
• Homepage: https://circuitscape.org
• Size: 8.62 MB
• Stars: 147
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 39
• Open Issues: 2
• Releases: 45
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md
  • Citation: CITATION.cff

README.md

julia> using Pkg
julia> Pkg.add("Circuitscape")

julia> Pkg.add(PackageSpec(name="Circuitscape", rev="master"))

julia> Pkg.test("Circuitscape")

julia> using Circuitscape
julia> compute("path/to/config/file.ini")

julia> using Circuitscape
julia> Circuitscape.INIBuilder.start()

julia> using Circuitscape
julia> cfg = Circuitscape.init_config()
julia> cfg["habitat_file"] = "resistance_map.asc"
julia> cfg["point_file"] = "focal_nodes.asc"
julia> cfg["scenario"] = "pairwise"
julia> cfg["output_file"] = "output/results.out"
julia> compute(cfg)

solver = cholmod   # or accelerate, pardiso

precision = single

Citation (CITATION.cff)

cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below."
type: software
title: "Circuitscape.jl"
authors:
  - family-names: Anantharaman
    given-names: Ranjan
  - family-names: Shah
    given-names: Viral B
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: "Circuitscape in Julia: Empowering Dynamic Approaches to Connectivity Assessment"
  authors:
    - family-names: Hall
      given-names: Kimberly R
    - family-names: Anantharaman
      given-names: Ranjan
    - family-names: Landau
      given-names: Vincent A
    - family-names: Clark
      given-names: Melissa
    - family-names: Dickson
      given-names: Brett G
    - family-names: Jones
      given-names: Aaron
    - family-names: Platt
      given-names: Jim
    - family-names: Edelman
      given-names: Alan
    - family-names: Shah
      given-names: Viral B
  journal: Land
  volume: 10
  issue: 3
  start: 301
  year: 2021
  publisher:
    name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
  doi: "10.3390/land10030301"
references:
  - type: article
    title: "Using circuit theory to model connectivity in ecology and conservation"
    authors:
      - family-names: McRae
        given-names: Brad H
      - family-names: Dickson
        given-names: Brett G
      - family-names: Keitt
        given-names: Timothy H
      - family-names: Shah
        given-names: Viral B
    journal: Ecology
    volume: 10
    start: 2712
    end: 2724
    year: 2008

Owner metadata

• Name: Circuitscape
• Login: Circuitscape
• Email:
• Kind: organization
• Description: Circuit-theoretic computations for landscape ecology
• Website: https://circuitscape.org/
• Location:
• Twitter:
• Company:
• Icon url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5827361?v=4
• Repositories: 15
• Last ynced at: 2024-03-26T05:39:06.618Z
• Profile URL: https://github.com/Circuitscape

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• Push event: 118

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• julialang.org: 1
• noack.dk: 1
• mayin.org: 1
• csp-inc.org: 1

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Package metadata

• Total packages: 2
• Total downloads:
  • julia: 208 last-month
• Total dependent packages: 2 (may contain duplicates)
• Total dependent repositories: 0 (may contain duplicates)
• Total versions: 33

Dependencies

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