Software

Across Trophic Level System Simulation
A simulation system for the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp (USA).
http://atlss.org/

ADE-4
Exploratory and Euclidean methods in Environmental sciences.
http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/ADE-4/

Biota
Microbial Ecology Resources' software; this particular item will run simulations of multiple species in a specific environment. Most variables can be manipulated.
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/resources/rs_4.html

Biovol
Program for calculating the volumes, surface areas, and surface to volume ratios of diatoms.
http://www.msu.edu/~kirschte/biovol

CODA: Conservation Options and Decisions Analysis
CODA is a free software package for nature conservation planning.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~mbedward/coda/coda.html

CyberTracker
Free software for data collection and analysis in ecological and environmental field work.
http://www.cybertracker.org/

Didg Information Systems
Mobile, desktop and internet information systems for recording, identifying and brokering plant and animal observations.
http://didg.com

Diversidad
Scans digital earth images and automatically identifies areas with both high and low biodiversity.
http://home.att.net/~podolsky/divcov.htm

Ecological Software Solutions
Software for biology, ecology, geography, wildlife fisheries and the environmental sciences.
http://www.ecostats.com

Ecomaster and Cascoly Critters
Software: Ecology and biology simulations for all ages
http://cascoly.com/science.htm

ECOSIM : Ecosystem Simulation
Information and links concerning ecological modeling and application of simulation to ecology.
http://www.isima.fr/ecosim/

Ecotools
Information about tools to support the modelling and simulation of individual-oriented ecological models.
http://www.offis.de/projekte/projekt_e.php?id=140

Environmental Design Making
Microbial Ecology Resources' software designed for students. Allows students to create ecosystems to gain understandings of ecosystem functionality and productivity.
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/resources/rs_5.html

Fossil Creek Software
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.
http://weba.viawest.net/~fcs/p2/index.html

Gecko
Yale software; downloadable demo available for this software. Designed to teach ecosystem dynamics to advanced ecology students.
http://www.cbc.yale.edu/old/cce/gecko.html

KiteGraph
KiteGraph illustrates growth patterns of animal populations in kite diagrams.
http://home.swipnet.se/kitegraph/

KrebsWin
Programs from Ecological Methodology by Charles J. Krebs, compiled to run under Windows 3.x and Windows 9x.
http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/jbrzusto/krebswin.html

LemnaTec Image Processing
Bio-testing for potentially hazardous substances using image processing of cultured Lemna.
http://www.lemnatec.de

MjM Software Design
PC-ORD software for multivariate statistical analysis of ecological communities, including cluster analysis, ordination, and species diversity.
http://home.centurytel.net/~mjm/

MultiTrace
Jensen Software Systems offer software programs to analyze telemetry data including dive analysis, temperature analysis, deadreckoning, geolocation and pH analysis.
http://www.jensen-software.com/

Oakleaf Systems
Simulations of data based upon relationships presented in the journal Ecology, with 25 different simulations for each journal volume.
http://www.oakleafsystems.net/

Patuxent Software Archive
Site contains software for ecological management, including tagging game and ecosystem analysis.
http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/software.html

Pisces Conservation Ltd
Information about ecological software and consultancy services.
http://www.pisces-conservation.com/

Pollen-based Climate Reconstruction
Windows software that provides quantitative climate reconstruction from pollen spectral datasets.
http://dendro.naruto-u.ac.jp/~nakagawa/

Population Ecology
Online quantitative population ecology lectures and population model and data information.
http://www.ento.vt.edu/~sharov/

Populus - Simulations of Population Biology
Software containing set of simulations used to teach population biology and evolutionary ecology at the University of Minnesota. Freely downloadable for educational use.
http://www.cbs.umn.edu/populus

Program Distance
Distance is a software program designed for the analysis of distance sampling data, to estimate density and abundance of a population.
http://www.ruwpa.st-and.ac.uk/distance/

RAMAS Ecological and Environmental Software
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.
http://www.ramas.com

RHABSIM
RHABSIM (Riverine HABitat SIMuation) is a fully integrated program for river hydraulics and aquatic habitat modeling using the Instream Flow Incremental Methodology (IFIM). Running in Microsoft Windows and DOS, it is an extensive conversion of the PHABSIM hydraulic and habitat simulation system developed by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
http://www.northcoast.com/~trpa/index.html

Simfor
A decision support tool designed to help managers and researchers evaluate the impacts of forest harvesting scenarios against landscape and habitat indicators.
http://www.forestry.ubc.ca/simfor/

Wa-Tor for Windows
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.
http://www.kovcomp.co.uk/wator/

Wildlife Counts
Software to help estimate populations of birds and fish in an ecosystem.
http://www.wildlifecounts.com/

Wildlife Ecology Software
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.
http://nhsbig.inhs.uiuc.edu/

WorldMap
Software for exploring geographical patterns in diversity, rarity and conservation priorities from large biological datasets.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/science/projects/worldmap/worldmap/demo2.htm

WWW-Server for Ecological Modelling
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.
http://dino.wiz.uni-kassel.de/ecobas.html