Quantifies ecological impacts using BACI designs, landscape fragmentation metrics, and pressure indices. Use this skill when the user mentions BACI analysis, before-after-control-impact, impact assessment, disturbance effects, land use change impacts, fragmentation metrics, landscape metrics, pressure or threat indices, intervention effectiveness, management outcome evaluation, or control-impact comparisons.
name ecological-impact-assessment description Quantifies ecological impacts using BACI designs, landscape fragmentation metrics, and pressure indices. Use this skill when the user mentions BACI analysis, before-after-control-impact, impact assessment, disturbance effects, land use change impacts, fragmentation metrics, landscape metrics, pressure or threat indices, intervention effectiveness, management outcome evaluation, or control-impact comparisons. skill_version 1.0.0 Skill: ecological-impact-assessment Domain: BACI · Before/After · Fragmentation · Pressure · Impact synthesis Phase: 2 — Modeling Used by: assess-ecological-impact, build-fire-risk-map, analyze-environmental-change Purpose Guides the agent through the design and analysis of ecological impact assessments: BACI frameworks, before/after comparisons, landscape fragmentation analysis, anthropogenic pressure quantification, and synthesis of impact magnitude. When to Invoke Quantifying the effect of a disturbance, land-use change, or management intervention Designing a BACI study or interpreting BACI data Computing landscape fragmentation or connectivity metrics Building a composite pressure or threat index Inputs Input Format Required Ecological indicator time series (control and impact sites) CSV Yes Disturbance event date(s) Text / date Yes Land cover maps (pre/post) GeoTIFF Conditional Pressure / threat layers GeoTIFF, SHP Optional Outputs Output Description baci_results.csv BACI interaction term with CI and p-value fragmentation_metrics.csv Patch area, perimeter, connectivity indices pressure_index.tif Composite pressure map impact_synthesis.md Narrative summary of impact magnitude impact_plots/ Before/after and control/impact comparison plots Steps