Useful Links
Computational Ecology Software
- EstimateS- Software for calculating biodiversity indices:
viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/EstimateS - Fragstats- Software for calculating landscape indices:
www.umass.edu/landeco/research/fragstats/fragstats.html
Database Links
- Plant Database for India:www.plantsindia.org
- Global Amphibian Assessment: www.globalamphibians.org/servlet/GAA
- Global Database on fish species: www.fishbase.org/search.cfm
- BirdLife International Red Data Book: www.rdb.or.id
- Mammal Species of the World: nmnhgoph.si.edu/msw
- Animal Info India: www.animalinfo.org/country/india.htm
- IUCN Red list of Threatened Species: www.redlist.org
- NCL Centre for Biodiversity Informatics: www.ncbi.org.in
- Western Ghats Biodiversity Information Systems: wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity
- WWF Global 200 Ecoregions: www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/ecoregions/global200/pages
- Indian Institute of Remote Sensing: www.iirs-nrsa.gov.in
- Census of India: www.censusindia.net
- Diva GIS http://www.diva-gis.org/
- Biomapper is a free GIS-toolkit to model habitat suitability http://www2.unil.ch/biomapper/
- The Conservation Planning System (C-Plan) http://members.ozemail.com.au/~cplan/
- FloraMap - A software tool for predicting the distribution of plants and other organims in the wild http://www.floramap-ciat.org/
- GARP predicts wild species distributions http://www.lifemapper.org/desktopgarp/
- WorldMap can be used to map and analyze biological diversity http://www.nhm.ac.uk/science/projects/worldmap/
- Cartographic Links for Botanists http://www.helsinki.fi/~rlampine/cartogr.html
- Software for Biological Collection Management http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/TDWG/acc/software.htm
- Managing genetic resources with GIS http://www.ipgri.cgiar.org/regions/americas/programmes/gisforpgr.htm
- On line diversity mapping http://biodi.sdsc.edu/
- Learn more about GIS http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/notes.html
- Do you find it difficult to get the right colors for your map? http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorBrewerBeta.html
- Society for Conservation GIS http://www.scgis.org/
- The open source Java GIS toolkit http://www.geotools.org/2.0.x
- BioGeomancer Tool http://www.biogeomancer.org
- BioSciences GIS Facilities > Web Resources http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/facilities/gis/index.php?Page=338