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(麻豆淫院) -- A University of Exeter team has developed new software tools for helping prioritise efforts in species conservation. As well as determining which species need our help, it will also be useful in pest control and sustainable harvesting.

The researchers from the University鈥檚 Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) and Centre for Ecology and Conservation on the Cornwall Campus have launched their new software, called 鈥榩opdemo鈥� with the publication of two articles in the British Ecological Society journal Methods in Ecology & Evolution. The software is free to anyone and, although it is based on complex mathematical models, it is easy to use.

Popdemo adds to the established 鈥楻鈥� project, which provides free and powerful software, for statistics and modelling, to scientists and environmental groups worldwide.

Main researcher University of Exeter PhD student Iain Stott says: 鈥淥pen source software is the future for scientific methods and tools: it allows anyone to engage with scientific research for free. I am proud to be able to contribute to this global software 辫丑颈濒辞蝉辞辫丑测.鈥�

Stuart Townley, Professor of Applied Mathematics in the ESI, says: 鈥淭his is the culmination of eight years interdisciplinary research involving biologists and mathematicians. Popdemo makes sophisticated mathematical tools accessible to applied ecologists鈥�.

Dave Hodgson, Senior Lecturer in Ecology at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation, says: 鈥淭here is a pressing need for the sustainable use of biological resources. Our package allows ecologists to make the right decisions when conserving or managing wildlife populations鈥�.