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Modelling Population Dynamics: Model Formulation, Fitting and Assessment Using State-Space Methods Softcover Repri Edition
Contributor(s): Newman, K. B. (Author), Buckland, S. T. (Author), Morgan, B. J. T. (Author)
ISBN: 1493951629     ISBN-13: 9781493951628
Publisher: Springer
OUR PRICE:   $132.99  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Biostatistics
- Mathematics | Probability & Statistics - General
Dewey: 519.5
Series: Methods in Statistical Ecology
Physical Information: 0.48" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.72 lbs) 215 pages
 
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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.