Course Objectives

Important University Policies

Class Time and Place

Prerequisites

Blackboard

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This page is the general description of the course and suggested expectations for both the student and the expectations of the teacher.

Analysis Tools for Natural Resources

Other Sites

Statistical

• StatLib a system for distributing statistical software, datasets, and information.
• MathSoft Mathcad and S-PLUS
• The SAS Institute
• Statistics
• R - Comprehensive R archive Network
• Xlispstat and R-code Statistical Packages - Department of Statistics, University of Minnesota
• Globally Accessible Statistical Procedures (GASP)

Multivariate

• Ordination Methods for Ecologists - Botany Department, Oklahoma State University
• Multivariate Methods in Ecology - Botany Department, Oklahoma State University

Complex Adaptive Systems

• Fractals Groupe Fractales -- INRIA (in France)
• The Santa Fe Institute

Software Tools

General

• Simile for ecological and environmental modelling. Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Microimages Free academic version of GIS software "TNTlite".
• ESRI Free software site

Forestry

• Gingrich Stocking Diagram Spreadsheet, The School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri-Columbia.
• Gingrich Stocking Diagram Spreadsheet, The School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri-Columbia.
• q-value spreadsheet - The School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri-Columbia.
• Landscape Management System - Silviculture Laboratory, University of Washington.
• Forest Vegetation Simulator - Forest Management Service Center.

Wildlife

• Software Developed by Department of Fishery and Wildlife Biology and Colorado Coop. Fish and Wildlife Unit Colorado State University.
• Illinois Natural History Survey Wildlife Ecology Software Server
• Spectrum: An Analytical Tool to Support Ecosystem Management
• POPAN stand for Population Analysis. University of Manitoba.
• krebswin Software from the Krebs Ecological Methodology book.
• Software for Population Analysis from Cornell.