Zonation 5
Zonation 5 is a spatial prioritization software that can be used to identify priority areas to support conservation planning, land use planning, ecological impact avoidance and other similar tasks. The software uses spatial raster data on the distributions of individual biodiversity features (species, habitats, ecosystem services etc.) to identify which locations in a landscape are most important for retaining biodiversity. Zonation can account for local habitat quality and ecological connectivity together with costs, threats and different land tenure, thus providing a quantitative method for spatial planning that enhances the persistence of biodiversity in the long term.
- For more information: https://zonationteam.github.io/Zonation5/
Running Zonation 5 on Comet
You do not need to install Zonation in order to run it on Comet. Follow these steps to run:
Start a new Open OnDemand Linux X11 VNC desktop session from the https://ood01.comet.hpc.ncl.ac.uk website and once you have a desktop session running you can start Zonation as follows:
Open up the terminal application from the bottom menu:
Download the Linux AppImage .zip file from the Zonation 5 web page using wget:
$ wget https://github.com/zonationteam/Zonation5/releases/latest/download/Zonation5_Linux.zip
Once the file has downloaded, unzip it:
$ unzip Zonation5_Linux.zip
You will have a single file named zonation5. You can start the application by running it as follows:
$ ./zonation5
The Zonation 5 application dialogue box will appear, and you can start to enter the required information for your settings file and output directory:
You can copy the zonation5 file to any directory and it will run as long as you cd to that directory and prefix the command with ./ as above - you do not need to keep the original .zip file that was downloaded.