Stat 534: Ecological Statistics, 2009
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Assigned Readings:
Note. WNC is Williams, Nichols and Conroy,
Analysis and Management of Animal Populations
AMM is Amstrup, McDonald and Manly, Handbook of
Capture-Recapture Analysis
- Part 1, closed populations:
WNC Chapter 1
Borchers, Cuckland and Zucchini, Chapter 2: Using likelihood for
estimation.
Chao and Huggins, Classical Closed-population Capture-Recapture
Models, Chapter 2 in AMM
Chao and Huggins, Modern Closed-population Capture-Recapture
Models, Chapter 4 in AMM<
- Part 1, open populations:
Pollock and Alpizar-Jara, Classical Open-population
Capture-Recapture Models, Chapter 3 in AMM
(optional) Nichols, Modern Open-population
Capture-Recapture Models, Chapter 5 in AMM
- Part 2, population models:
WNC, Chapter 7, Principles of model development and assessment (for
concepts)
Caswell et al., Structured-population models: many methods, a few
basic concepts, chapter 1 in Tuljapurkar and Caswell
Caswell, Matrix methods for population analysis, chapter 2 in
Tuljurpurkar and Caswell
or WNC, sections 8.4-8.6, but only skim 8.4.2.3. - 8.4.4 and
omit 8.5.2
Caswell, Chapter 10, Life Table Response Experiments from Caswell,
Matrix Population Models, 2nd ed.
Dixon et al., Part of Sensitivity Analysis for Management, pp
496-510 in Tuljurpurkar and Caswell.
(optional) The basics of matrix algebra
Homework: (N.B. Homework are in pdf format, which require Acrobat to
read
Data sets and programs
Links to commercial and public-domain software (generally for
Windows)