Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations

Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations

Author: David L. Thomson

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-12-11

Total Pages: 1110

ISBN-13: 038778151X

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Here, biologists and statisticians come together in an interdisciplinary synthesis with the aim of developing new methods to overcome the most significant challenges and constraints faced by quantitative biologists seeking to model demographic rates.


Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations

Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations

Author: David L. Thomson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-05-01

Total Pages: 1156

ISBN-13: 9781489979100

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Here, biologists and statisticians come together in an interdisciplinary synthesis with the aim of developing new methods to overcome the most significant challenges and constraints faced by quantitative biologists seeking to model demographic rates.


Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations

Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations

Author: David L. Thomson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-11-16

Total Pages: 1132

ISBN-13: 9780387569741

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Here, biologists and statisticians come together in an interdisciplinary synthesis with the aim of developing new methods to overcome the most significant challenges and constraints faced by quantitative biologists seeking to model demographic rates.


Modelling Population Dynamics

Modelling Population Dynamics

Author: K. B. Newman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-07-16

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1493909770

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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 within the framework of an annual cycle, and for which stochastic variability in the demographic processes is usually modest. Discrete-time models are developed in which animals can be assigned to discrete states such as age class, gender, maturity, population (within a metapopulation), or species (for multi-species models). The book goes well beyond estimation of abundance, allowing inference on underlying population processes such as birth or recruitment, survival and movement. This requires the formulation and fitting of population dynamics models. The resulting fitted models yield both estimates of abundance and estimates of parameters characterizing the underlying processes.


Demography

Demography

Author: Samuel H. Preston

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2000-10-11

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9781557862143

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This book presents and develops the basic methods and models that are used by demographers to study the behaviour of human populations. The procedures are clearly and concisely developed from first principles and extensive applications are presented.


Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations

Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations

Author: David L. Thomson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-11-16

Total Pages: 1132

ISBN-13: 9780387569741

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Here, biologists and statisticians come together in an interdisciplinary synthesis with the aim of developing new methods to overcome the most significant challenges and constraints faced by quantitative biologists seeking to model demographic rates.


Integrated Population Models

Integrated Population Models

Author: Michael Schaub

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2021-11-12

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 0128209151

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Integrated Population Models: Theory and Ecological Applications with R and JAGS is the first book on integrated population models, which constitute a powerful framework for combining multiple data sets from the population and the individual levels to estimate demographic parameters, and population size and trends. These models identify drivers of population dynamics and forecast the composition and trajectory of a population. Written by two population ecologists with expertise on integrated population modeling, this book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the relevant theory of integrated population models with an extensive overview of practical applications, using Bayesian methods by means of case studies. The book contains fully-documented, complete code for fitting all models in the free software, R and JAGS. It also includes all required code for pre- and post-model-fitting analysis. Integrated Population Models is an invaluable reference for researchers and practitioners involved in population analysis, and for graduate-level students in ecology, conservation biology, wildlife management, and related fields. The text is ideal for self-study and advanced graduate-level courses. Offers practical and accessible ecological applications of IPMs (integrated population models) Provides full documentation of analyzed code in the Bayesian framework Written and structured for an easy approach to the subject, especially for non-statisticians


Population Growth: Observations and Models

Population Growth: Observations and Models

Author: Maxime Seveleu-Dubrovnik

Publisher: Vodary Paris

Published: 2016-05-15

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 2490771000

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Modeling as used in social science and in particular in de­mography, is a complicated process. Modeling population dynamics has traditionally been the central branch of mathematical biology, and counts more than 210 years of history, notwithstanding the recent expansion of this sci­ence's scope. The first principle of population dynamics is widely regarded as the exponential law of Malthus, as modeled by the Malthusian growth model. The early period was dominated by de­mographic studies such as the work of Benjamin Gompertz and Pierre François Verhulst in the early 19th century, who refined and adjusted the Malthusian demographic model. In this volume, dedicated to the 250th anniversary of Thomas R. Malthus, we publish seve­ral modern analyses that illustrate the honored place the Malthus's work occupies in the science of demographic modeling. Editors: Maxime Seveleu-Dubrovnik and William R. Nelson


Bayesian Analysis for Population Ecology

Bayesian Analysis for Population Ecology

Author: Ruth King

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2009-10-30

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 1439811881

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Emphasizing model choice and model averaging, this book presents up-to-date Bayesian methods for analyzing complex ecological data. It provides a basic introduction to Bayesian methods that assumes no prior knowledge. The book includes detailed descriptions of methods that deal with covariate data and covers techniques at the forefront of research, such as model discrimination and model averaging. Leaders in the statistical ecology field, the authors apply the theory to a wide range of actual case studies and illustrate the methods using WinBUGS and R. The computer programs and full details of the data sets are available on the book's website.