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.

Conefor for Processing

13.07.2023 14:19 ·  GIS  ·  qgis, plugins, processing, conefor

At the beginning of the year, I developed a new plugin — Conefor for Processing.

Conefor (previously known as Conefor Sensinode) is a tool to quantify the importance of habitat areas and links for the maintenance of connectivity. It is also used to evaluate the impacts on connectivity of habitat and landscape changes. Conefor is used to conduct a spatial ecology analysis and conservation planning. The Conefor for Processing plugin contains tools to prepare data and perform all types of analysis available in the Conefor.

The new plugin is a great addition to the Circuitscape provider I have developed before. Together, these plugins create a powerful set of tools for spatial ecology and conservation, allowing researchers from different fields to predict the movements of animals, evaluate the impact of climate change on range shifts, analyse the spread of invasive species or disease, understand how landscape patterns affect gene flow, and much more.