Modeling Demographic Processes In Marked Populations

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Thomson, David L. (Editor), Cooch, Evan G. (Editor), Conroy, Michael J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Series: Environmental and Ecological Statistics ; 3
• Subjects: Statistics.; Environmental sciences.; Nature conservation.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science.; Nature Conservation.

Much of biology can be understood in terms of demography. It is the demographic processes of birth and death which govern rates of population growth and the rates at which gene frequencies change. The analysis of demographic processes in free-living organisms is, however, far from simple. Scientists...

Table of Contents:

• Population Dynamics – Growth, Density-Dependence and Decomposing ?
• Evolutionary Ecology
• Abundance Estimation – Direct Methods, Proxies, Occupancy Models and Point Count Data
• Dispersal, Movement and Migration – Methods and Multi-State Models
• Wildlife and Conservation Management
• Combing Sources of Information – Kalman Filters, Matrix Methods and Joint Likelihoods
• Bayesian Applications - Advances, Random Effects and Hierarchical Models
• The Robust Design – Sampling, Applications and Advances
• State Uncertainty – Assignmant Error and Unobservable States
• New Software Developments for Modeling Demographic Processes
• Open Forum.