RCA Tutorial

Introduction

• The Reference Condition Analysis plugin is used to evaluate impacts on biodiversity by computing the expected diversity based on several types of habitat metadata and compares these to the observed diversity.
• This tutorial outlines the use of the RCA plugin on a dataset from the Upper Mersey region in Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Download the RCA Tutorial files

Loading Data

• Unzip the download rca_tutorial.zip file from the link above.
• Launch GenGIS and load the following files:
  • Merseyarea.tiff using Load Raster Map
  • UpperMersey_locs.csv using Load Locations
  • UpperMersey_seqs.csv using Load Sequences