Welcome to PDA - Phylogenetic Diversity Analyzer!

a software tool for Biodiversity Analysis and Conservation Prioritization Problems

Biodiversity optimization with

Species Richness

Phylogenetic Diversity (PD)

Split Diversity (SD)

PDA supports the following Conservation Prioritization Problems


Target: Taxa

  1. Taxon Selection Problem
  2. Viable Taxon Selection
  3. Budgeted Taxon Selection

Target: Area

  1. Reserve Selection Problem
  2. Budgeted Reserve Selection




Download

The latest PDA release version 1.0.3 (November 26, 2015)

Windows binary 64-bit
Mac OS X binary 64-bit
Linux binary 64-bit
Source code

Online Web Service

PDA web server for online computations.
http://www.cibiv.at/software/pda/web-pda/
(Under construction)

Support

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us:
{minh.bui,olga.chernomor}(at)univie.ac.at.
If you encounterred bugs please also
include the .log file and the input files.

Citations

To cite PDA please use:

O. Chernomor, B.Q. Minh, F. Forest, S. Klaere, T. Ingram, M. Henzinger, and A. von Haeseler (2015) Split diversity in constrained conservation prioritization using integer linear programming. Methods Ecol. Evol., 6, 83-91. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12299

Credits and Acknowledgements

Funding:

PDA was partially funded by the Austrian Science Fund - FWF (grant no. I760-B17 from 2012-2015) and the University of Vienna (Initiativkolleg I059-N).