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    ToxTrac 2026

    ToxTrac 2026

    Free Animal Tracking Software

    ToxTrac is a free Windows program optimized for tracking animals. It uses an advanced tracking algorithm and includes Preprocessing, Background subtraction, Advanced collision and occlusion management, Post-processing, and Filters. It is robust; very fast; and can handle one or several animals in one or several environments. The program provides useful statistics as output. ToxTrac can be used for fish, insects, rodents, etc. If used, please cite: Rodriguez, A., Molares-Ulloa, A., Andersson, M., and Brodin, T. (2026). ToxTrac 2026 (1.4). Universidade da Coruña. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20393895. Rodriguez, A., Zhang, H., Klaminder, J., Brodin, T., Andersson, P. L. and Andersson, M. (2018). ToxTrac: a fast and robust software for tracking organisms. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(3):460-464. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12874. Contact and Support: Alvaro Rodriguez (Main Developer), a.tajes@udc.es Magnus Andersson, magnus.andersson@umu.se
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    openLISEM

    openLISEM

    A spatial runoff, soil erosion and flooding model

    An nopensource runoff, erosion and flood model openLISEM. There are two branches: - the classic openLISEM that you can find here: https://github.com/vjetten/openlisem/, please contact Victor Jetten (v.g.jetten@utwente.nl) for details. - the multihazard version of LISEM on this page, for details contact Bastian van den Bout (b.vandenbout@utwente.nl). This software is made available under the licence GPL v3.
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    openLCA

    openLCA

    professional open source software for LCA

    Software for sustainability assessment, highly modular; initially focused on Life Cycle Assessments.
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    MacPHREEQC

    MacPHREEQC

    macOS version of the USGS geochemical modeling code PHREEQC

    The macOS version of PHREEQC, a program developed by the U.S. Geological Survey for speciation, batch-reaction, one-dimensional transport, and inverse geochemical calculations
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    Kitchen garden aid
    An easy to use application to design your kitchen garden or your house farm. Helps you plan your plants ( vegetables, fruit trees, herbs, flowers ) so that it respects the rules of crop rotation and companion planting. Based on square foot gardening. Requires Java 8.
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    Niche Analyst (NicheA) was developed based on the BAM framework which allows users to create virtual spaces and virtual species, and to analyze ecological niches in both multivariate environmental and geographic spaces, linking views of the niche in the two spaces. The unique functionality in NicheA, not available in other software programs, is estimating Grinnellian niches of species based on environmental variables and occurrence records, but with a clear focus on fundamental ecological niches. NicheA can display ecological niches; calculate their shape, density, location, and other attributes; and quantify similarity among multiple niches.
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    Cultivation is a game about the interactions within a gardening community. The resources needed for genetic propagation are tight, and relations can become tense. Cultivation explores self-interest, the common good, conflict, and compromise.
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    Conefor
    Conefor Sensinode quantifies the importance of habitat areas for the maintenance or improvement of landscape connectivity. It is conceived as a tool for decision-making support in landscape planning and conservation. Further details: www.conefor.org
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    SeaBreeze

    SeaBreeze

    Open-source cross-platform spectrometer device driver

    SeaBreeze is a device driver library that provides an interface to select Ocean Optics spectrometers. It is written in C/C++ and builds and runs on Windows (XP/7/8), MacOSX, and Linux (x86/x64/ARM).
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    Piko stats

    Piko solar inverter data communicator and manager

    Piko solar inverter interface. Get online real time data and status. Get also history data. Database management of data. Exports, graphs, ... Manage data and stats using a SQLite or MySQL database. Third party intergration. See the Wiki home page for more informations.
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    PAMGuide

    An analysis tool in MATLAB and R for acoustic habitat characterisation

    PAMGuide is acoustic analysis software for the characterisation of the acoustic environment from sound recordings. PAMGuide can be used to produce calibrated spectrograms and statistical analyses of sound levels, and is provided in both MATLAB and R. A Tutorial on getting started with PAMGuide can be downloaded here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.12330/suppinfo PAMGuide was published as supplementary material to the following Open Access journal article: Merchant, N.D., Fristrup, K.M., Johnson, M.P., Tyack, P.L., Witt, M.J., Blondel, P., Parks, S.E. (2015). Measuring acoustic habitats. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12330
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    MCC-LIDAR

    Multiscale Curvature Classification for LIDAR Data

    MCC-LIDAR is a C++ application for processing LiDAR data in forested environments. It classifies data points as ground or non-ground using the Multiscale Curvature Classification algorithm.
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    Barber-cushman model scripted in R
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    DyMMM

    Dynamic Multispecies Metabolic Modeling framework

    The Dynamic Multispecies Metabolic Modeling (DyMMM [dĭm]) framework is a mathematical modeling tool that integrates multiple constraint-based metabolic models into a single dynamic community metabolic model. The DyMMM framework was formerly known as the DMMM framework. Please use the following citation for bibliographical purposes: Zhuang, K., Izallalen, M., Mouser, P., Richter, H., Risso, C., Mahadevan, R., & Lovley, D. R. (2011). Genome-scale dynamic modeling of the competition between Rhodoferax and Geobacter in anoxic subsurface environments. The ISME journal. Zhuang, K., Ma, E., Lovley, D. R., & Mahadevan, R. (2012). The design of long-term effective uranium bioremediation strategy using a community metabolic model. Biotechnology and Bioengineering.
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    MetaMaster is a Java-based desktop application for defining, managing and manipulating metadata associated with a collection of data files or datasets (both locally and on the network) which are bundled together into "data packages". ANDS-funded
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    *.xml files are uploaded to SAGA GIS toolchains 'Files' from where they can be downloaded: https://sourceforge.net/projects/saga-gis-rhotoolchains/files/ SAGA-GIS-toolchain_Burned_area.xml ___is presented in GitHub: https://github.com/RhoSpatial/Saga-gis-toolchain-for-burned-area-mapping- VIIRS_snow_tool_FINAL7.xml ___is a toolchain for snow cover retrival from VIIRS instrument imagery (NASA), input is study area cloud free VNP09GA product and DEM in GQ(nom 250m) resolution, it was developed to make high accurate snow cover analytics on Atlas mountains(Morocco). It was tested in 2017/18 snow season(output grids are available: mih.zemva@gmail.com). It is fairly complicated but not as much as toolchain for MODIS(not uploaded) with MOD09.. products input . * in line 139 polygon *.shp must be linked from drive; it's an additional retrieval of index values to monitor waterbodies and does not relate to snow cover analytics
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    phcfM

    phcfM

    R package for modelling anthropogenic deforestation

    phcfM is an R package for modelling anthropogenic deforestation. It was named after the REDD+ pilot-project 'programme holistique de conservation des forêts à Madagascar'. phcfM includes two main functions: (i) demography(), to model the population growth with time in a hierarchical Bayesian framework using population census data and Gaussian linear mixed models and (ii) deforestation(), to model the deforestation process in a hierarchical Bayesian framework using land-cover change data and Binomial logistic regression models with variable time-intervals between land-cover observations. The two functions use embedded Gibbs samplers written in C++ with the Scythe statistical library to reduce computational time.
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    Biosphere3D

    Biosphere3D

    Interactive landscape rendering based on a virtual globe.

    Biosphere3D targets interactive landscape rendering based on a virtual globe. It supports DEM, satellite and aerial images, 3D models (Collada), 3D plant models, and Shapefiles. Biosphere3D was initially developed by the landscape visualization group of the Zuse Institute Berlin by Malte Clasen and is now developed further by Lenné3D GmbH. For more information about the used concepts have a look at the thesis of Malte Clasen: Towards Interactive Landscape Visualization Doctoral Thesis published 2011 via Technische Universität Berlin https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-3005
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    CRAFTY

    Competition for Resources between Agent Functional Types

    CRAFTY is a large-scale ABM of land use change. It has been designed to allow efficient but powerful simulation of a wide range of land uses and the goods and services they produce. It is fully open-source and can be used without the need for any programming.
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    Evoversum
    This project has been moved to https://bitbucket.org/pbazant/evoversum/src/master/ . Evoversum is a fast Darwinian evolution simulator. The program simulates a 2D world populated with "animals" which struggle for food, reproduce and may also eat each other. The subject of evolution is their behavior, which may become quite complex. There is an updated video tutorial at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPkZvyVDWJU !
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    GIS data for Greece has been scarce. This project aims to provide methods, instructions and data for the construction of environmental maps of Greece with the help of open source GIS tools.
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    Luscinia is a program for archiving and analyzing field sound recordings (especially of animals). It incorporates an interface to a database, spectrogram measurement algorithms, sound comparison algorithms, and statistical analysis.
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    Biogenesis Color Mod

    Mod for evolution simulation and artificial life program Biogenesis

    You can download the Color Mod at the Biogenesis main site too (included in the main download now). You also find the sourcecode there. If you want to post a review, remember that this is only a modification, so comment on my changes, not on the simulation. Original project by Joan Queralt Molina: https://sourceforge.net/projects/biogenesis/ Includes Tyler Colemans "Features Mod": https://sourceforge.net/projects/biogenesisfeatu/ Biogenesis discussion forum: https://sourceforge.net/p/biogenesis/discussion/ Biogenesis runs faster (at least for myself) if you open a Google Chrome window (don´t know why :D)
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    DeepSee

    DeepSee

    Visualize deep ocean biogeochemical sediment samples in 2D and 3D!

    DeepSee is an interactive workspace for deep ocean scientists to upload sediment core data and map images and see their sampling history displayed across multiple connected views at once! 🦑🦀🐚 🚀 For a live demo, visit: https://www.its.caltech.edu/~datavis/deepsee/ 🌱 To get started, visit our Wiki: https://sourceforge.net/p/deepsee/wiki/Home/ 🧑‍💻 To modify DeepSee for your own project, visit our GitHub repository: https://github.com/orphanlab/DeepSee/ --- Created by Adam Coscia, Haley M. Sapers, Noah Deutsch, Malika Khurana, John S. Magyar, Sergio A. Parra, Daniel R. Utter, Rebecca L. Wipfler, David W. Caress, Eric J. Martin, Jennifer B. Paduan, Maggie Hendrie, Santiago Lombeyda, Hillary Mushkin, Alex Endert, Scott Davidoff, and Victoria J. Orphan. Copyright (c) 2022-23 California Institute of Technology ("Caltech"). U.S. Government sponsorship acknowledged. All rights reserved. Open Source License Approved by Caltech/JPL APACHE LICENSE, VERSION 2.0 ---
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    AGNES Cluster identification

    R script to run several clustering algorithms using morphometric data

    The R script was written to perform and compare several versions of cluster algorithms as described in: Seifert, Ritz & Csősz (2013) published in Myrmecological News. The aim is to identify (cryptic) taxa based on numeric data on morphology. The first step is a Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) based on subunits (ant nests) independent of any taxon information. Following analysis are Non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling (NMDS) and k-Means clustering. The NMDS scores are also summarized using K-Means. For comparison, k-Means is also run on the nest means (without preceeding LDA). Cluster assignment is summarized in an output file for all three methods.
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