LINKS

 Resources for Teaching Ecology

• Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology
• Pathways to Scientific Learning
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• National Biological Information Infrastructure (k-12)
  
• Teach-nology lessen plans (elementary)

Free Software for Ecological Analyses

• R (manual1, manual2)
  
• OpenOffice
• Diva GIS
• Maxent
• Ecological Software Solutions
  
• Ecosim
• Winphot
  
• EstimateS
  
• Fragstats
  
• Nestedness calculator
  
• Poptools
  
• ImageJ
  
• Presence
  
• PatchOccupancy
  
• RAD
  
• NeutralCom
  
• Sample
  
• Structure
  
• ComStruc
  
• Random
  
• Matrix
  
• Nestedness
  
• Mark
  
• SPADE
  
• WinBUGs
  
• Passage
  
• Distance
  
• Phylomatic
  
• Phylocom
  
• ArcExplorer
  
• PWRC Software Archive
  
• Google Earth 

Conservation/Research/Education Organizations

• Organization for Tropical Studies
  
• Center for Tropical Forest Science
  
• Amazon Conservation Association
  
• Parkswatch
  
• Bioparques
  
• Center for Tropical Conservation
  
• Center for Tropical Research
  
• Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution
  
• Students without Projects, Parks without Research
  
• Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project
  
• Andes Biodiversity Consortium
  
• Association for Fire Ecology
  
• Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
  
• Canadian Society of Environmental Biologists
  
• Center for Conservation Biology Network
  
• Conservation International
  
• Conservation Management Institute
  
• Defenders of Wildlife
  
• Ecological Society of America
  
• ESA Committee on the Future of Long-Term Ecological Data
  
• Environmental News Network
  
• The George Wright Society
  
• Information Center for the Environment (UC-Davis)
  
• International Association for Landscape Ecology
  
• Island Resources Foundation
  
• Land Trust Alliance
  
• U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research Network (LTER)
  
• National Association of Conservation Districts
  
• National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
  
• National Council for Science and the Environment
  
• National Parks Conservation Association
  
• Natural Areas Association
  
• The Nature Conservancy
  
• NatureServe (formerly ABI)
  
• The Orion Society
  
• Predator Conservation Alliance 
• Society for Conservation Biology
  
• Society for Ecological Restoration
  
• Society for Vector Ecology
  
• Soil and Water Conservation Society
  
• The Wilderness Society
  
• The Wildlife Society
  
• The Wildlife Trust
  
• Wildlife Conservation Society
  
• The World Conservation Union (IUCN)
  
• World Wildlife Fund

 
Funding Sources

• Birdnet
• National Security Education Program
• National Science Foundation
• Foreign Language and Area Studies
• Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund

 Academic Job boards

• ESA Physiological Ecology Page
  
• Science Magazine
  
• Chronicle of Higher Education
  
• Society for Conservation Biology