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Purpose-built for your ecological needs

Sample the diversity of ecological applications in SyncroSim

How SyncroSim benefits you

SyncroSim can be used to support just about any model, and is pre-built to serve a wide range of ecological applications, including predicting land cover change, modeling fire risk and species conservation planning. Learn from select use-cases about how SyncroSim can support your specific ecological needs.

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Land cover change

Model landscape dynamics of any habitat

From changes in vegetation to land use, build robust models of landscape dynamics to address key management questions across diverse ecosystems, including forests, rangelands, aquatic communities, and urban areas.

Featured package

ST-Sim is the SyncroSim flagship package that enables users to build and run spatially-explicit simulations of landscape change using a state-and-transition-simulation model (STSM) approach. ST-Sim supports:

Dynamic landscape modeling: Simulate changes across landscapes while accounting for uncertainties in model projections.
Integrated ecosystem monitoring: Add stock-flow models to track biomass, carbon, and other continuous variables through time and space.
Versatile applications: Connect with other SyncroSim packages to address a range of research and landscape management questions.

Model landscape change using ST-Sim

wildfire risk

Predict wildfire risk, now and into the future

Build dynamic spatial models to estimate and map the probability of wildfires across landscapes, and analyze how it can be impacted by changes in climate, vegetation, and management strategies.

Featured package

BurnP3+ was developed in partnership with the Canadian Forest Service, and allows users to build spatially-explicit fire growth models to estimate wildfire susceptibility and risk across a landscape. BurnP3+ offers:

Fire behaviour prediction: Combine data on fire location, weather patterns and other burn conditions with a fire growth model to estimate burn probability.
Fire risk assessment: Compare how different weather conditions and management actions can impact fire risk using a built-in scenario comparison feature.
Multiple fire growth models: Choose between pre-existing and trusted fire growth models or develop your own for increased flexibility.

Estimate wildfire risk using BurnP3+

Carbon accounting

Integrate forecasts of landscape change and carbon dynamics

Drive more impactful carbon sequestration strategies using simulations of land cover and ecosystem carbon dynamics to forecast how future land management and natural climate solutions will impact greenhouse gas emissions.

Featured package

ST-Sim allows for state-and-transition-simulation models to be combined with carbon stock-and-flow models to simulate the impact of land use and land cover change on ecosystem carbon dynamics. Key features of ST-Sim include:

Scalable carbon assessments: Generate high-resolution projections of land cover change and carbon balance over varying spatial areas and scales.
Carbon impact analyses: Evaluate how various land management strategies can affect greenhouse gas emissions using a built-in scenario comparison feature.
Integration with climate models: Track how changes in land use and climate scenarios impact carbon sequestration over time and space.

Forecast carbon outcomes using ST-Sim

Species conservation

Amplify the impact of species conservation

Enhance your conservation efforts by measuring connectivity, analyzing species distributions and simulating demographics of wildlife populations, all under a single platform.

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Featured package

omniscape allows users to run the Omniscape Julia package for omni-directional habitat connectivity analysis in SyncroSim, offering:

Integrated connectivity framework: Connect models of landscape change and habitat suitability to estimate species connectivity.
Impact assessment: Measure the impact of different conservation and management actions on ecological connectivity.
Accessible modeling: Leverage SyncroSim to access Omniscape.jl without needing to interact directly with Julia.

Measure ecological connectivity using omniscape

Featured package

Developed in partnership with the USGS, WISDM enables users to build and view species distribution models (SDM), offering:

Unified platform: Automate everything from data preparation and variable reduction to model fitting and visualization within a single software.
Integrated model comparison: Easily contrast species distributions built using different models, including MaxEnt, GLM and Random Forest.
Simplified SDM pipeline: Rapidly build complex SDMs without requiring understanding of Java programs like MaxEnt or other machine learning algorithms.

Visualize species distributions using WISDM

Featured package

prioritizr allows users to run systematic conservation prioritization analyses. As a SyncroSim package, prioritizr provides users with:

Advanced analytical framework: Address a wide range of conservation planning problems using exact algorithm solvers built for complex analyses.
Scenario management: Identify the optimal solution for allocating different management actions and zones based on prioritization models.
Streamlined workflows: Run computationally intensive models without having to manage data and scenarios.

Improve your conservation strategies using prioritzr