Abundance Estimation: Direct, Proxies and Point Counts -- Population Dynamics -- Combining Sources of Information -- Dispersal, Movement and Migration -- State Uncertainty: Assignment Error and Unobservable States -- Bayesian Applications: Advances, Random Effects and Hierarchical Models -- Evolutionary Ecology -- Wildlife and Conservation Management -- New Software Developments for Modeling Demographic Processes -- Open Forum
Summary
Brings together biologists and statisticians in an interdisciplinary synthesis to develop fresh methods to overcome the most significant challenges and constraints faced by quantitative biologists seeking to model demographic rates. This book focuses on the 10 areas in the field where important problems in demographic analysis are being solved