I would recommend you try Populus, developed by Don Alstad at the University of Minnesota. I used it as an undergraduate myself, and have used it teaching undergraduates. It is very user-friendly, and free.
http://cbs.umn.edu/populus/index.html Leslie Brandt PhD. Candidate University of Minnesota > Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:54:31 -0600 > From: aty...@unlnotes.unl.edu > Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Freeware for undergrad ecology course? > To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU > > Hi Jacqueline, > > The software R that was mentioned is very powerful, but I would hesitate > to use it for undergraduates. For the type of exercise you describe I have > used a combination of Microsoft Excel coupled with the PopTools add-on by > Greg Hood: > > http://www.cse.csiro.au/poptools/ > > It does all the life table to projection model conversions you could ask > for. It works with Excel 2007 as well. > > good luck, > > Drew Tyre > > School of Natural Resources > University of Nebraska-Lincoln > 416 Hardin Hall, East Campus > 3310 Holdrege Street > Lincoln, NE 68583-0974 > > phone: +1 402 472 4054 > fax: +1 402 472 2946 > email: aty...@unl.edu > http://snr.unl.edu/tyre > > > > "Schlosser Jacqueline (seal)" <s...@zhaw.ch> > Sent by: "Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news" > <ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU> > 02/05/2009 11:17 AM > Please respond to > "Schlosser Jacqueline (seal)" <s...@zhaw.ch> > > > To > ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU > cc > > Subject > [ECOLOG-L] Freeware for undergrad ecology course? > > > > > > > Dear Ecologger > > I'm looking for a free and easy to use software to use in my ecology > course. For one lab exercice, my students have to fill in cohort tables > (survivorship, mortality, fecundity etc.) to draw different survivorship > curves. To make this exercice more interesting and applied, I'd like to > find a program that would allow the students to enter this data and get a > graph back, that shows them the popultation increas/decrease over the next > 100-200 years. With this program they could play with the data and see > what implications different management decisions (ie protecting early life > stage vs. late life stages) would have for this population. > > Does anyone know of such a free/shareware? I appreciate your help. > Sincerely, > __________________________________________________ > > Jacqueline Schlosser, Ph.D. > ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences > Institut of Natural Resource Sciences > Gruental, Postfach 335 > CH-8820 Wadenswil > > > Telefon +41 (0)58 934 5792 > Fax +41 (0)58 934 5853 > > www.cascadesystems.ch > www.unr.ch > www.lsfm.zhaw.ch > > _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_allup_explore_022009
