Open directory - Software - Ecology - Biology

Across Trophic Level System Simulation - A simulation system for the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp (USA).

ADE-4 - Exploratory and Euclidean methods in Environmental sciences.

Biota - Microbial Ecology Resources' software; this particular item will run simulations of multiple species in a specific environment. Most variables can be manipulated.

Biovol - Program for calculating the volumes, surface areas, and surface to volume ratios of diatoms.

CODA: Conservation Options and Decisions Analysis - CODA is a free software package for nature conservation planning.

Computer Software for Teaching Ecology - Free educational software for college-level ecology courses plus links to many additional software sites.

CyberTracker - Free software for data collection and analysis in ecological and environmental field work.

Didg Information Systems - Mobile, desktop and internet information systems for recording, identifying and brokering plant and animal observations.

Diversidad - Scans digital earth images and automatically identifies areas with both high and low biodiversity.

Ecological Software Solutions - Software for biology, ecology, geography, wildlife fisheries and the environmental sciences.

Ecomaster and Cascoly Critters - Software: Ecology and biology simulations for all ages

ECOSIM : Ecosystem Simulation - Information and links concerning ecological modeling and application of simulation to ecology.

Ecotools - Information about tools to support the modelling and simulation of individual-oriented ecological models.

Environmental Design Making - Microbial Ecology Resources' software designed for students. Allows students to create ecosystems to gain understandings of ecosystem functionality and productivity.

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.

Gecko - Yale software; downloadable demo available for this software. Designed to teach ecosystem dynamics to advanced ecology students.

GRASP - Generalized Regression Analysis and Spatial Prediction - Downloadable S-Plus plugin to automate spatial predictions using regression analysis.

KiteGraph - KiteGraph illustrates growth patterns of animal populations in kite diagrams.

KrebsWin - Programs from Ecological Methodology by Charles J. Krebs, compiled to run under Windows 3.x and Windows 9x.

LemnaTec Image Processing - Bio-testing for potentially hazardous substances using image processing of cultured Lemna.

MAGIS: Landscape Planning Software - 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.

MjM Software Design - PC-ORD software for multivariate statistical analysis of ecological communities, including cluster analysis, ordination, and species diversity.

MultiTrace - Jensen Software Systems offer software programs to analyze telemetry data including dive analysis, temperature analysis, deadreckoning, geolocation and pH analysis.

Oakleaf Systems - Simulations of data based upon relationships presented in the journal Ecology, with 25 different simulations for each journal volume.

Patuxent Software Archive - Site contains software for ecological management, including tagging game and ecosystem analysis.

Pisces Conservation Ltd - Information about ecological software and consultancy services.

Pollen-based Climate Reconstruction - Windows software that provides quantitative climate reconstruction from pollen spectral datasets.

Population Ecology - Online quantitative population ecology lectures and population model and data information.

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.

Program Distance - Distance is a software program designed for the analysis of distance sampling data, to estimate density and abundance of a population.

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.

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.

Simfor - A decision support tool designed to help managers and researchers evaluate the impacts of forest harvesting scenarios against landscape and habitat indicators.

Swarm - 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.

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.

Wildlife Counts - Software to help estimate populations of birds and fish in an ecosystem.

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.

WorldMap - Software for exploring geographical patterns in diversity, rarity and conservation priorities from large biological datasets.

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.