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(More customer reviews)Royle & Dorazio (2008): A truly synthetic overview
This book not only illustrates, and presents R and WinBUGS code for, plenty of methods for inference about distribution and abundance in animal and plant populations and communities; it does much more. It presents a truly synthetic overview of these methods and makes the reader understand how they relate to each other. At the same time, the authors succeed extremely well in teaching a modern, "organic way" of statistical modeling -- where one first thinks hard about how the observed data might have arisen via a combination of stochastic processes (the book is about hierarchical models, remember) and then builds a custom statistical model for exactly those processes. This combination of presenting a unifying synthesis of a vast array of methods and showing how to model a study system organically in my view is unique among the currently available statistical ecology books.
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A guide to data collection, modeling and inference strategies for biological survey data using Bayesian and classical statistical methods.This book describes a general and flexible framework for modeling and inference in ecological systems based on hierarchical models, with a strict focus on the use of probability models and parametric inference. Hierarchical models represent a paradigm shift in the application of statistics to ecological inference problems because they combine explicit models of ecological system structure or dynamics with models of how ecological systems are observed. The principles of hierarchical modeling are developed and applied to problems in population, metapopulation, community, and metacommunity systems. The book provides the first synthetic treatment of many recent methodological advances in ecological modeling and unifies disparate methods and procedures.The authors apply principles of hierarchical modeling to ecological problems, including * occurrence or occupancy models for estimating species distribution* abundance models based on many sampling protocols, including distance sampling* capture-recapture models with individual effects* spatial capture-recapture models based on camera trapping and related methods* population and metapopulation dynamic models* models of biodiversity, community structure and dynamics * Wide variety of examples involving many taxa (birds, amphibians, mammals, insects, plants)* Development of classical, likelihood-based procedures for inference, as well asBayesian methods of analysis* Detailed explanations describing the implementation of hierarchical models using freely available software such as R and WinBUGS* Computing support in technical appendices in an online companion web site
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