Conefor for Processing 2.0

26.05.2026 08:08 ·  GIS  ·  qgis, plugins, processing, conefor

I continue to update and re-publish my QGIS plugins. Today marks another milestone: a new version of the Conefor Processing provider was just uploaded.

As this is one of my latest plugins, it did not require many changes: just some Qt 6 compatibility fixes and small touches to improve the user experience, such as adding help strings.

If you haven’t seen the initial announcement of the plugin and/or are not familiar with Conefor, here is a short overview.

Conefor is a specialized tool to quantify the importance of habitat areas and links for maintaining or improving landscape connectivity. It is widely used in spatial ecology and conservation planning as a decision-making support tool for prioritizing critical sites and evaluating how habitat fragmentation affects wildlife movement.

The plugin acts as a wrapper for the Conefor command-line tool and provides algorithms for input preparation and running analyses. Together with the Circuitscape Processing provider, this plugin forms a powerful suite of spatial ecology tools, helping researchers analyze anything from climate-induced species range shifts to gene flow and landscape permeability patterns.

Check the plugin documentation for more details and installation instructions.