Recording and data

Analytical methods and modeling tools

Software for viability, connectivity, occupancy, camera traps and acoustics.

• Vortex

  Free population viability analysis for extinction-risk simulation

• Circuitscape

  Open-source circuit-theory tool for landscape connectivity and gene flow

• Linkage Mapper

  ArcGIS toolbox that maps and prioritizes wildlife corridors

• BOLD Systems

  DNA barcode database and analysis workbench for species identification

• TDWG Biodiversity Information Standards

  The standards body for biodiversity data, and home of Darwin Core, the vocabulary everything from GBIF down uses to share occurrence and specimen records

• eBio Atlas

  Open global eDNA biodiversity repository, freshwater focus

• Maxent

  Maximum-entropy species distribution modeling software

• Wallace EcoMod

  Guided R and Shiny platform for reproducible niche modeling

• Program MARK

  Capture-recapture survival and population parameter estimation

• rOpenSci

  Peer-reviewed hub for open-source R packages used in ecology

• unmarked (R package)

  Fits occupancy, distance sampling and N-mixture abundance models to survey data where detection is imperfect

• camtrapR (R package)

  Turns raw camera-trap images into detection histories, occupancy model inputs and activity patterns

• MegaDetector

  Free AI model that finds animals, people and vehicles in camera-trap images so you never review a blank frame again

• AddaxAI

  Runs MegaDetector and species classifiers through a desktop interface, with no coding required. Formerly EcoAssist

• Timelapse2

  Free tool for reviewing and annotating large camera-trap image sets, and it imports MegaDetector results

• Camelot

  Free camera-trap database and classification tool that exports straight to camtrapR and PRESENCE

• Raven

  Cornell Lab sound analysis software for visualizing and measuring animal calls. Raven Lite is free, Raven Pro is paid

• Kaleidoscope

  Sorts and labels bird song, frog calls and bat echolocation across months of recordings. Lite edition is free

• bioacoustics (R package)

  Free GPL-3 package that filters noisy audio and extracts acoustic features for classification, reading WAV, WAC, MP3 and ZC

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