Monday, July 6, 2026

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Room BE.0.18

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There is a minimum number of 5 and a maximum number of 30 participants for this training. What will you need? Participants will need their own laptop. Unsustainable development continues to fragment natural landscapes and wildlife populations, contributing to declining global biodiversity. Advances in computation have enabled ever more sophisticated assessment of development and conservation impacts on functional landscape connectivity. However, accessibility of these advances to non-expert users has lagged. Here we present Connecting Landscapes (CoLa), an integration and expansion of existing software applications that model functional connectivity, population dynamics, and genetic exchange across landscapes. CoLa is a cloud-based or locally installable conservation decision-support system (DSS) that enables user-friendly assessment of the trade-offs between development and conservation in a data-driven framework. We provide an introduction to the methods, uses and applications of the DSS, including its functionality. We provide participants with hands-on training using the full scope of the tool in exploring two case studies at different spatial scales illustrating its use.

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