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Modelling population dynamics : model formulation, fitting and assessment using state-space methods

By K Buckland & Byron Morgan & Ruth King & David L. Borchers & Diana Cole & P. Besbeas & Olivier Gimene

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2014
ISBN
1493909762, 978-1-4939-0976-6, 978-1-4939-0977-3, 1493909770
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4939-0977-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3350135 bytes)
Series
Methods in statistical ecology
Pages
215\223
Topic
Biology
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

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.

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