Population Ecology in Practice : Underused, Misused and Abused Methods. 1st Edition Dennis L. Murray

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0470674148
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0470674147
• Author:  Dennis L. Murray, Brett K. Sandercock

A synthesis of contemporary analytical and modeling approaches in population ecology

The book provides an overview of the key analytical approaches that are currently used in demographic, genetic, and spatial analyses in population ecology. The chapters present current problems, introduce advances in analytical methods and models, and demonstrate the applications of quantitative methods to ecological data. The book covers new tools for designing robust field studies; estimation of abundance and demographic rates; matrix population models and analyses of population dynamics; and current approaches for genetic and spatial analysis. Each chapter is illustrated by empirical examples based on real datasets, with a companion website that offers online exercises and examples of computer code in the R statistical software platform.

• Fills a niche for a book that emphasizes applied aspects of population analysis
• Covers many of the current methods being used to analyse population dynamics and structure
• Illustrates the application of specific analytical methods through worked examples based on real datasets
• Offers readers the opportunity to work through examples or adapt the routines to their own datasets using computer code in the R statistical platform

Population Ecology in Practice is an excellent book for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in population ecology or ecological statistics, as well as established researchers needing a desktop reference for contemporary methods used to develop robust population assessments.

Table of contents:

Part I Tools for Population Biology 

1 How to Ask Meaningful Ecological Questions

2 From Research Hypothesis to Model Selection: A Strategy for Robust Inference in Population Ecology

Part II Population Demography 

3 Estimating Abundance or Occupancy from Unmarked Populations

4 Analyzing Time Series Data: Single-Species Abundance Modeling

5 Estimating Abundance from Capture-Recapture Data

6 Estimating Survival and Cause-specific Mortality from Continuous Time Observations

7 Mark-Recapture Models for Estimation of Demographic Parameters

Part III Population Models 

8 Projecting Populations

9 Combining Counts of Unmarked Individuals and Demographic Data Using Integrated Population Models

10 Individual and Agent-based Models in Population Ecology and Conservation Biology

Part IV Population Genetics and Spatial Ecology

11 Genetic Insights into Population Ecology

12 Spatial Structure in Population Data

13 Animal Home Ranges: Concepts, Uses, and Estimation

14 Analysis of Resource Selection by Animals

15 Species Distribution Modeling

Part V Software Tools 389

16 The R Software for Data Analysis and Modeling

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