Open Directory - Science: Biology: Ecology: Software
See also: - Exploratory and Euclidean methods in Environmental sciences. - A simulation system for the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp (USA). - Microbial Ecology Resources' software; this particular item will run simulations of multiple species in a specific environment. Most variables can be manipulated. - Program for calculating the volumes, surface areas, and surface to volume ratios of diatoms. - Interactive program for making statistical comparisons with distance-function based permutation tests and for testing parameters estimated in linear models with permutation procedures. - Free educational software for college-level ecology courses plus links to many additional software sites. - Free software for data collection and analysis in ecological and environmental field work. - Mobile, desktop and internet information systems for recording, identifying and brokering plant and animal observations. - Information and links concerning ecological modeling and application of simulation to ecology. - Software for biology, ecology, geography, wildlife fisheries and the environmental sciences. - Software: Ecology and biology simulations for all ages - Microbial Ecology Resources' software designed for students. Allows students to create ecosystems to gain understandings of ecosystem functionality and productivity. - Describes and offers POP-II and POP-III population dynamics software, which is used by government and university wildlife biologists to simulate the dynamics of deer, elk, moose and other large animal populations. - Yale software; downloadable demo available for this software. Designed to teach ecosystem dynamics to advanced ecology students. - HEP enables land use managers to quantify the effects of alternative management plans over time, and provide for mitigation and compensation that can allow fair use of the land and maintain healthy habitats for affected species. - Programs from Ecological Methodology by Charles J. Krebs, compiled to run under Windows 3.x and Windows 9x. - Bio-testing for potentially hazardous substances using image processing of cultured Lemna. - Application developed by the US Forest Service to support vegetation management planning. The MAGIS system allows users to analyze competing management issues such as fire hazard reduction, ecological restoration, wildlife habitat and economics. - PC-ORD software for multivariate statistical analysis of ecological communities, including cluster analysis, ordination, and species diversity. - MSMA assists wetland managers in the development of annual management plans for a moist-soil complex composed of several individual units. - Jensen Software Systems offer software programs to analyze telemetry data including dive analysis, temperature analysis, deadreckoning, geolocation and pH analysis. - NATHAT allows use of daily and peak streamflow data to establish a hydrologic baseline, environmental flow standards and evaluate past and proposed hydrologic modifications. - Simulations of data based upon relationships presented in the journal Ecology, with 25 different simulations for each journal volume. - Set of programs to predict the micro-habitat conditions in rivers as a function of streamflow, and the relative suitability of those conditions to aquatic life. - Site contains software for ecological management, including tagging game and ecosystem analysis. - Information about ecological software and consultancy services. - Windows software that provides quantitative climate reconstruction from pollen spectral datasets. - Online quantitative population ecology lectures and population model and data information. - Software containing set of simulations used to teach population biology and evolutionary ecology at the University of Minnesota. Freely downloadable for educational use. - Distance is a software program designed for the analysis of distance sampling data, to estimate density and abundance of a population. - Offers software for ecology, conservation biology, wildlife management, and human health risk analysis. Data analysis for endangered and threatened species, models of extinction risk assessment linked to geographic information systems. - Provides a computer model that computer model that simulates the dynamics of freshwater salmonid populations, both anadromous and resident. - A decision support tool designed to help managers and researchers evaluate the impacts of forest harvesting scenarios against landscape and habitat indicators. - The Swarm Simulation System, created by The Sante Fe Institute, can be used both as a simulation tool for artificial life and ecological models and ecosystems. - USGS scientists have developed HIP and a suite of software tools for conducting a hydrologic classification of streams, addressing instream flow needs, and assessing past and proposed hydrologic alterations on streamflow and other ecosystem components. - Information about ecological modelling (simulation models, descriptions of these models, simulation-software, data sources and other information about modelling). Many ecological models available for downloading; researchers are invited to upload their models here to make them available to others. - Site offers a population ecology simulation game pitting sharks against fish. The populations may fluctuate or may go extinct, depending on the initial parameters and subsequent random events. - Software to help estimate populations of birds and fish in an ecosystem. - A clearing-house for wildlife ecology related software, for applications such as habitat analysis, diversity indices, simulations, general population dynamics, capture/recapture, survival, energetics, statistics, home range, and telemetry. - Software for exploring geographical patterns in diversity, rarity and conservation priorities from large biological datasets.
