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  1. Biomapper. A GIS-toolkit to model ecological niche and habitat suitability Wed, 10/17/2007 - 09:50

    Biomapperis a kit of GIS and statistical tools designed to build habitat suitability models and maps for any kind of animal or plant. It is centred on the Ecological Niche Factor Analysisthat allows to compute models without the need of absence data.

  2. CLIMEX Thu, 10/18/2007 - 13:01

    A commercial package that enables to asses the risk of pest establishing in a new location and the potential success or failure of a biological control agent from the current locations.

  3. deegree - Free Software for Spatial Data Infrastructures vdeegree 2.1-pre (recommended) Mon, 11/24/2008 - 13:23

    deegree is a Java Framework offering the main building blocks for Spatial Data Infrastructures. Its entire architecture is developed using standards of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

  4. DesktopGARP v1.1.6 Wed, 10/17/2007 - 10:00

    DesktopGarp is a software package for biodiversity and ecologic research that allows the user to predict and analyze species distributions. GARP tries, interactively, to find non-random correlations between the presence and absence of the species and the values of the environmental parameters, using several types of rules. Each rule type implements a different method for building species prediction models. GARP as input takes enivonmental data and species occurrence localities. It generates random absence data.

  5. DIVA-GIS v6.0 Mon, 11/24/2008 - 13:29

    DIVA-GIS is a free and open source geographic information system (GIS) to make maps of species distribution data and analyze these data. DIVA-GIS was specifically developed at CIP for use with genebank data such as available through national or international genebank documentation systems and SINGER. It consists many useful tools such as Grid Calculator (multiplying, adding rasters), Neighbourhood ( changing raster resolution) and Georeference Image. DIVA-GIS also has an Ecological Niche Modeling tool which can be used to predictive modeling ( it uses Bioclim and Domain algorithms). From DIVA-GIS desktop one can directly connect to DIVA-GIS Free GIS Data site and download climate grids, DEM, sattelite images or country level data.

  6. DIVA-GIS Annapurna Wed, 10/17/2007 - 10:01

    Another version of the same DIVA-GIS programme.

  7. EcoSim. Null model software for ecologists Wed, 10/17/2007 - 10:04

    EcoSim allows you to test for community patterns with non-experimental data performing Monte Carlo randomizations to create “pseudo-communities”, then statistically compares the patterns in these randomized communities with those in the real data matrix.

  8. EstimateS. Statistical estimation of species richness and shared species from samples Wed, 10/17/2007 - 10:07

    EstimateS is a free software application for Windows and Macintosh operating systems that computes a variety of biodiversity functions, estimators, and indices based on biotic sampling data. Some features require species relative abundance data, others only species presence/absence data.

  9. FloraMap Wed, 10/17/2007 - 10:09

    FloraMap is a software linked to agroclimatic and other databases able to showing the most likely distribution of wild species in nature.

  10. GBIF MAPA Wed, 10/17/2007 - 10:14

    A GBIF demonstration project which allows users to query the GBIF cache using names obtained through the Catalogue of life and to map and analyse the resultant record set. The Survey Gap Analysis (SGA) tool helps to design a biodiversity survey that will best complement the existing survey effort by identifying those areas least well surveyed in terms of environmental conditions. The Species Richness Assessment (SRA) tool provide an estimate of the number of species in an area; and to gain insight into the adequacy of sampling based on abundance distributions for those species.

  11. GeoDa. An Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis Thu, 10/18/2007 - 13:02

    GeoDa is the latest incarnation in a long line of software tools designed to implement techniques for exploratory spatial data analysis on lattice data (points and polygons). The free program provides a user friendly and graphical interface to methods of descriptive spatial data analysis, such as spatial autocorrelation statistics, as well as basic spatial regression functionality.

  12. GIS data downloads Mon, 11/24/2008 - 13:28

    Download of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data layers.
    Free GIS layers from different sources, in Idrisi and Shape formats, etc. to make easy download and use of this information.
    Some GIS layers are still under construction, and the web page with links to the information is provisional.

  13. GPSBabel Thu, 10/18/2007 - 12:57

    GPSBabel is a converter program aimed at GPS systems. It can convert files to and from a large number of free and proprietary formats, such as KML (Google Earth) , csv, GPX, ...

  14. GPSphotolinker v1.5.1 Thu, 10/18/2007 - 12:58

    GPSPhotoLinker can be used to save location and GPS position data to a photo. The latitude and longitude recorded by your GPS unit while you were taking photos can be linked, and saved, to the photos. GPSPhotoLinker automatically enters the city, state and country into the metadata.


  15. gvSIG Mon, 06/04/2007 - 09:37

    gvSIG is a tool oriented to manage geographic information. It is characterized by a user-friendly interface, with a quick access to the most usual raster and vector formats. In the same view it includes local as well as remote data through a WMS, WCS or WFS source.

    It is aimed at users of geographic information, whether professionals or civil servants (city councils, councils, regional councils or ministries) from any part of the world ( at the moment its interface is in Spanish, Valencian, English, Basque, Gallego, Czech, Chinese, French, German, Italian and Portuguese), in addition to being freeware.

    Given its freeware nature (open source) it is highly interesting for the international community of developers and, in particular, for university settings due to its R&D&I component. In fact, special emphasis has been placed on the expansion of the project so that potential developers can easily expand the functions of the application, as well as develop completely new applications from the libraries used in gvSIG (as long as they comply with the GPL license).

  16. HyperNiche Thu, 10/18/2007 - 13:01

    HyperNiche is a software for nonparametric regression, providing a flexible tool for multiplicative habitat modelling, habitat models where the predictors are combined multiplicatively rather than additively.

  17. JUICE Thu, 10/18/2007 - 13:04

    JUICE Determine species response curves on environmental gradients, allowing the determination of species optimum and also niche width (tolerance), and identifying species as generalist or specialist.

  18. LoLA. Library of Location Algorithms Thu, 10/18/2007 - 13:10

    LoLA is designed as a software system comprising the algorithmic methods known in location planning. LoLA consists of a GUI (graphical user interface), a text based interface, and a programming interface which is designed to enable the users of LoLA to write their own C++ programs using algorithms from the LoLA -libraries.

  19. Maxent v2.3.0 Thu, 10/18/2007 - 13:10

    Maxent is a free software based on the maximum-entropy approach for species habitat modeling. This software takes as input a set of layers or environmental variables (such as elevation, precipitation, etc.) and produces a model of the range of the given species. It uses species georeferenced occurrence locations ( presence-only data) which makes it very useful for taxonomists.

  20. OpenModeller. Fri, 10/19/2007 - 09:10

    The OpenModeller project aims to provide a flexible, user friendly, cross-platform environment where the entire process of conducting a fundamental niche modeling experiment can be carried out. The software includes facilities for reading species occurrence and environmental data, selection of environmental layers on which the model should be based, creating a fundamental niche model and projecting the model into an environmental scenario. A number of fundamental niche modeling algorithms are provided as plug-ins, including GARP, Climate Space Model, Bioclimatic Envelopes, and others.

  21. Quantum GIS Mon, 11/24/2008 - 13:24

    Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. QGIS is licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS lets you browse and create map data on your computer. It supports many common spatial data formats (e.g. ESRI ShapeFile, geotiff). QGIS supports plugins to do things like display tracks from your GPS. QGIS is Open Source software and its free of cost (download here). We welcome contributions from our user community in the form of code contributions, bug fixes, bug reports, contributed documentation, advocacy and supporting other users on our mailing lists and forums. Financial contributions are also welcome.

  22. R-sig-Geo -- R Special Interest Group on using Geographical data and Mapping Fri, 10/19/2007 - 09:13

    A mailing list for discussing the development and use of R functions and packages for handling and analysis of spatial, and particularly geographical, data. The list also covers mapping and cartographic issues, and interfaces between R and geographical information systems.

  23. ResNet and Surrogacy Fri, 10/19/2007 - 09:16

    ResNet is a place prioritization software package designed to select places according to their biodiversity content. Surrogacy allow to test if environmental surrogates can represent biodiversity components.

  24. S-Distance Fri, 10/19/2007 - 09:17

    S-Distance is a standalone Spatial Decision Support System, mainly focused on location-allocation analysis. While still being in an early stage, the software is functional and has been tested on many classical Operation Research instances, as well as on several real-world problems. S-Distance is currently being created using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and is intended to be used for educational purposes only.

  25. SAGA GIS Thu, 05/31/2007 - 11:38

    SAGA – System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses- is a hybrid GIS software. The first objective of SAGA is to give (geo-)scientists an effective but easy learnable platform for the implementation of geoscientific methods, which is achieved by SAGA's unique Application Programming Interface (API). The second is to make these methods accessible in a user friendly way. This is mainly done by the Graphical User Interface (GUI). Together this results in SAGA's true strength: a fast growing set of geoscientifc methods, bundled in exchangeable Module Libraries.

    SAGA is written in the widespread and powerful C++ programming language and follows an object oriented approach. Moreover it relies on the GNU Public License, which means it is an open source project. All this designates SAGA to be a first choice tool for everybody who works in the field of geosciences, in particular for those who want transparent state of the art methods.

  26. SAM. Spatial Analysis in Macroecology Fri, 10/19/2007 - 09:21

    SAM is a compact but robust computer program designed as a package of statistical tools for spatial analysis, mainly for applications in Macroecology and Biogeography. SAM runs under Microsoft Windows as a user-friendly, menu-driven, graphical interface computational program. SAM offers a wide spectrum of statistical methods currently used in Surface Pattern Spatial Analysis.

  27. SEXTANTE Fri, 10/19/2007 - 09:22

    SEXTANTE is the GIS system developed by the government of Extremadura, for satisfying its own needs and continuing the line of technological advance that has been followed in the last years. You can visit it here : http://www.linex.org/).

  28. SITATION. Facility Location Software. Fri, 10/19/2007 - 09:23

    The SITATION software solves several classes of location problems running under Windows 95. This program as others are fully described in the book Network and Discrete Location: Models, Algorithms, and Applications.

  29. SPADE. Species Prediction And Diversity Estimation Fri, 10/19/2007 - 09:24

    SPADE estimates species richness, shared species richness and various diversity and similarity indices, based on different types of sample data from one or two communities.

  30. SPATSTAT Fri, 10/19/2007 - 09:25

    A R library for the statistical analysis of spatial point patterns.

  31. SPECRICH v1.0 Fri, 10/19/2007 - 09:27

    SPECRICH Computes species richnessor total number of species from empirical species abundance distribution data.

  32. spsurvey Fri, 10/19/2007 - 09:29

    A R library useful for site selection and spatial survey designs.

  33. SYNTHESYS NAD: Providing itinerary related datasets and tools (for integration, visualisation and quality check) Fri, 10/19/2007 - 09:30

    The funtion of this service is to detect itinerary patterns in georeferenced primary data presumably collected during a collecting event.

  34. TDWG World Geographical Scheme - GIS Shapefiles v2.0 Fri, 05/25/2007 - 11:14

    TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions

    The International Taxonomic Database Working Group's world geographical scheme for recording plant distributions can be downloaded from this website as ArcView shape files for use in GIS. This is the first release of these dataset so there may be some errors. Please send any corrections to J.Moat@rbgkew.org.uk. Please see the metadata for more information on these datasets (contained with the zip file metadata.xml and metadata.txt). Also please read the disclaimer and copyright before downloading this data.

  35. The R Project for Statistical Computing Fri, 10/19/2007 - 09:31

    R is the most complete and freely available software for statistical computing and graphics allowing the accomplishment of Generalized Linear Models, Generalized Additive Models, Classification and Regression Trees or Neural Networks models.

  36. WhyWhere Fri, 10/19/2007 - 09:32

    WhyWhere is another modeling software similar to GARP that can detect strong associations with virtually any distribution type because it does not require assumptions about the form of the distributions such as gaussian, sigmoidal, exponential, etc, as an input.

  37. Ws2m. Software for the measurement and analysis of species diversity Fri, 10/19/2007 - 09:33

    Ws2m estimate the number of species in a collection of identified individuals generating a series of statistics for a randomly ordered data set. Ws2m uses a large (and user-controllable) variety of estimators to produce the estimates. It also reports the number of individuals used to that point and the actual number of species so far obtained in the collection. It can report species-abundance distributions and Jaccard indices.

  38. ZONATION Fri, 10/19/2007 - 09:35

    Zonation is a reserve selection framework for spatial conservation planning. It identifies areas important for retaining habitat quality and connectivity for multiple species, indirectly aiming at species’ long-term persistence. Zonation can be used for various purposes such as spatial conservation prioritization, conservation assessment, reserve selection and reserve network design.

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