Open Source Ecosystem Sciences 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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

A collection of Dashboard Widgets generally focused on displaying information provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Examples include river levels information of interest to whitewater kayakers amongst others.

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.

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.

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

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).

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.

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

The Life Cycle Assessment Spreadsheet allows you to calculate carbon footprints and other environmental impacts for given product systems. Use requires basic skills in LCA and matrix algebra, but rewards effort with professional analytical tools.

Black Spot is a free stand alone software and method to estimate leaf area from images of leaves captured using standard flatbed scanners. This easy to use software allows the user to batch process a large number of samples from multiple species with minimal user input.

The class libraries here provide infrastructure for creating simulations of low energy nuclear physics experiments, as well as some useful working programs that do simple simulations and analysis of experiments performed with magnetic spectrographs.

The nofdp IDSS is an open source application for modeling flood control measures and 1D hydrodynamic flood simulation. Additional modules for ecological and spatial analysis, multicriteria evaluation and communication are included.

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.

IBIS - Interactive Biodiversity Informatics Software - is software to identify species or other taxa. Intended users range from school children or citizen scientists to ecologists or taxonomists. The identification keys can be embedded in CMS or Wiki

LAMBDA is a MatLab toolkit that performs multivariate autoregressive first-order data analysis. LAMBDA estimates community interactions using matrix algebra. The target audience is scientists with long-term ecological data.

R Tools for Biologists (RT4Bio) is a multi-functional package writen in R language developed in the Laboratory of Behavioral and Computational Ecology at State University of Montes Claros - MG - Brazil. Formerly known as RRJ.

*.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

IPAT-S is a scenario modeling language. Use it for rapid development of quantitative strategic scenarios for governments, agencies, businesses, etc. using a fast and compact interpreted language. Package includes IPAT Studio development environment.

TRiDaS is a universal data exchange standard for the dendrochronology community. This project contains the data standard itself as well as libraries and tools useful for reading, writing and converting dendro data files.