Ecological Modeling (FOR 8515)

Modeling Tools

Modeling environments

• Simile the visual modelling environment for ecological, biological and environmental research
• Stella
• Madonna
• Software for Graphical Modelling
• The Swarm Simulation System
• Octave GNU Octave is a high-level lanuage, primarily intended for numerical computations.
• Scilab is a scientific package for numerical computation in a user-friendly environment.

Programmable Statistical Packages

• R statistical program
• Xlisp-Stat and other software
  • ARC Applied Regression Including Computing and Graphics
• GASP Globally Accessible Statistical Procedures

Programming Languages

• Python
• Perl
• Java

Other tools

• Gnuplot
• KMatplot is a gnuplot-like tool for plotting data sets in either two or three dimensions.
• epsTk Graphical output functions for Octave or Matlab.

Forest model comparisons

• Ecosystem Model- Data Intercomparison
• JABOWA III
• PnET
• Biome-BGC
• LANDIS
• Ecological Modeling Server