Estimating Animal Abundance

Closed Populations
2002
ISBN: 978-1-85233-560-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1420 g

Reihe: Statistics for Biology and Health

We hope this book will make the bewildering variety of methods for estimat ing the abundance of animal populations more accessible to the uninitiated and more coherent to the cogniscenti. We have tried to emphasize the fun damental similarity of many methods and to draw out the common threads that underlie them. With the exception of Chapter 13, we restrict ourselves to closed populations (those that do not change in composition over the period(s) being considered). Open population methods are in many ways simply extensions of closed population methods, and we have tried to pro vide the reader with a foundation on which understanding of both closed and open population methods can develop. We would like to thank Miguel Bernal for providing the St Andrews example dataset used frequently in the book; Miguel Bernal and Jeff Laake for commenting on drafts of the book; Jeff Laake for providing Figure 10.1; NRC Research Press for allowing us to use Figures 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 and10.7; the International Whaling Commission for allowing us to use Figure 12.1; Sharon Hedley for providing Figures 12.1 and 12.2. D.L.B. is eternally indebted to Carol, Alice and Aidan for their support through writing the book, and for the many evenings and weekends that it has taken from them.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Borchers, D. L.

Zucchini, Walter

Buckland, Stephen T.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Mathematik & Informatik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Mathematische Statistik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierökologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Datenanalyse, Datenverarbeitung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Angewandte Biologie Biomathematik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction.- 2 Using likelihood for estimation.- 3 Building blocks.- 4 Plot sampling.- 5 Removal, catch-effort and change-in-ratio.- 6 Simple mark-recapture.- 7 Distance sampling.- 8 Nearest neighbour and point-to-nearest-object.- 9 Further building blocks.- 10 Spatial/temporal models with certain detection.- 11 Dealing with heterogeneity.- 12 Integrated models.- 13 Dynamic and open population models.- 14 Which method?.- A Notation and Glossary.- A.1 Notation.- A.2 Glossary.- B Statistical formulation for observation models.- B.1 Detection function.- B.2 Multiple surveys.- C The asymptotic variance of MLEs.- C.1 Estimating the variance of an MLE.- C.2 Estimating the variance of a function of an MLE.- C.3 A one-parameter example.- C.3.1 Fisher information version 1.- C.3.2 Fisher information version 2.- C.3.3 Observed information.- D State models for mark-recapture and removal methods.- D.1 Static population.- D.2 Independent dynamics.- D.3 Markov dynamics.- References.