Hilborn / Mangel The Ecological Detective

Confronting Models with Data
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4731-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 28, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Monographs in Population Biology

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Hilborn, Ray

Mangel, Marc

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Beyond the Null Hypothesis

1 An Ecological Scenario and the Tools of the Ecological Detective 3

2 Alternative Views of the Scientific Method and of Modeling 12

3 Probability and Probability Models: Know Your Data 39

4 Incidental Catch in Fisheries: Seabirds in the New Zealand Squid Trawl Fishery 94

5 The Confrontation: Sum of Squares 106

6 The Evolutionary Ecology of Insect Oviposition Behavior 118

7 The Confrontation: Likelihood and Maximum Likelihood 131

8 Conservation Biology of Wildebeest in the Serengeti 180

9 The Confrontation: Bayesian Goodness of Fit 203

10 Management of Hake Fisheries in Namibia Motivation 235

11 The Confrontation: Understanding How the Best Fit Is Found 263

Appendix "The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses" 281

References 295

Index 309

Über Autor(innen)

Ray Hilborn is Professor in the School of Fisheries, University of Washington and the coauthor, with Carl Walters, of Quantitative Fisheries Stock Assessment. Marc Mangel is Professor of Environmental Studies and a Fellow at College Eight at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Decision and Control in Uncertain Resource Systems and coauthor, with Colin Clark, of Dynamic Modeling in Behavioral Ecology.