b-davies/OsaPeninsula: Multi-Temporal Heterogeneous Landscape Patterns and Legacies On the Northern Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

Multi-Temporal Heterogeneous Landscape Patterns and Legacies On the Northern Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica This repository contains code and data associated with a forthcoming manuscript "Multi-Temporal Heterogeneous Landscape Patterns and Legacies On the Northern Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica," currently under review at Revista de Biologia Tropical. Included in this repository are: GIS_Layers: All non-proprietary GIS layers used in this study (analyzed using ESRI ArcGIS) lulc_* folders: Land use and land cover (LULC) models developed from aerial imagery for a given year Dwellings_1960_to_2024: shapefile of locations of Osa Peninsula dwellings in the study area Persisting_Primary_Forest: shapefile of areas of persistent primary forestin the study area Persisting_Successional_Forest_Patches: shapefile of areas with persistent successional forest in the study area Similarity_Ranking_Raster_2014: Raster produced from similiarity ranking exercise R_Code_and_Data: R code and data DynamicWorldComparison: Quarto Markdown (.qmd) document (runs in RStudio) with code used in the analysis of ranking similarities of LULC model and DynamicWorld DataFiles folder: Data used in analysis Proprietary data (not included here) include: Historical aerial photographs (1960, 1975, and 1992) and from the Instituto Geográfico Nacional Costa Rica Cloudless mosaic of orthophotos at scale 1:5000 acquired directly from the from the Instituto Geográfico Nacional Costa Rica, providing imagery from the time period of November 2014 to February 2017