Software

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/

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

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

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

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/

Jensen Software Systems - MultiTrace analyzes data origined from various data-loggers (e.g. TDR).
http://www.jensen-software.com/

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

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/

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

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/

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

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/

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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