Modelling Population Dynamics Model Formulation, Fitting and Assessment using State-Space Methods /

• Main Authors: Newman, K. B. (Author), Buckland, S. T. (Author), Morgan, B. J. T. (Author), King, R. (Author), Borchers, D. L. (Author), Cole, D. J. (Author), Besbeas, P. (Author), Gimenez, O. (Author), Thomas, L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Methods in Statistical Ecology,
• Subjects: Statistics.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.

This book gives a unifying framework for estimating the abundance of open populations: populations subject to births, deaths and movement, given imperfect measurements or samples of the populations.  The focus is primarily on populations of vertebrates for which dynamics are typically modelled withi...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Matrices as Building Blocks
• State-space Models
• Fitting State-space models
• Model Formulation and Evaluation
• Modelling Population Dynamics Using Closed-population Abundance Estimates
• Estimating Survival Probabilities from Mark-re-encounter Data
• Estimating Abundance from Mark-recapture Data
• Integrated Population Modelling
• Concluding Remarks.