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FRAGSTATS - Developed by Kevin McGarigal and Barbara Marks, it calculates spatial
statistics for areas of any size for raster or vector files. This program may be most useful in research
initially to identify which landscape parameters seem to be associated with the abundance or fitness of
certain organisms (or fire behaviour, or human aesthetics, etc) injarrah and karri forests. Once those
associations are identified, then interface of this program with land management planning tools can allow
explicit consideration of spatial patterning, patch characteristics, and edge types in managed landscapes.
CAPTURE - Developed by Eric Rexstad, initially designed by Otis and Burnham to calculate
populations of animals based on mark recapture data on closed populations. Those researchers or those
involved in monitoring population of species using mark-recapture techniques could benefit from use of
this approach because it explicitly considers capture probability in calculating populations, and identifies
the most appropriate estimator based on characteristics of the data.
ECOPRO - Based on chapters by Brower and Zar's Laboratory Manual of Field Ecology, this is
an interactive, menu-driven program written in BASIC to calculate simple statistics; conduct t-tests,
nonparametric tests, regression and correlation; estimate animal abundance from mark-recapture,
removal, or line transect samples; and calculate species diversity indices or community similarity indices
from several samples. Particularly useful is few data need quick analyses.
STATECOL - BASIC Programs written in association with the book, "Statistical Ecology" by
Ludwig and Reynolds (1988). These programs calculate spatial dispersion, diversity, ordination of
samples in multivariate space, and regression. Probably of most interest to plant and animal ecologists.
COMMUN - Written in C, this model takes ASCII files containing species numbers for 2
communities and calculates species diversity indices for each community and community similarity
indices for the pair of communities. Particularly useful for large data sets and repeated runs. Output can
be saved to a common output file for later printing. Probably of most interest to plant and animal
ecologists.
TELEM - Calculates home ranges, includes ADKERN, for use of the adaptive kernel Method of
home range calculation, the preferred approach these days. Source code is included. Useful for wildlife
biologists.
TELEM89 - Calculates home range area from coordinate data. Useful for wildlife biologists.
MCPAAL - Calculates home range area from coordinate data. Useful for wildlife biologists.
CALHOME - calculates home range area from coordinate data, including the adaptive kernel
method. Useful for wildlife biologists.
