Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)

Demography can be considered the key to understanding much of biology. It is the demographic processes of birth and death which govern the spread of populations through environmentsand the spread of genes through populations. An understa- ing of demographycan yield not only an understanding of population size and p- ulation change, it can help us to understand the form and function of life histories; whenorganismsmature,whentheybreed,and whentheydie. Demographicinsights allow us to see how populations function, how they interact with their changing environment, and how they adapt. The analysis of demographic processes in free-living organisms is however no simple task and involves considerable challenges in observation and analysis. Some 20yearsago,therewasaconcertedefforttopromoteinter-disciplinarycollaboration between biologists and statisticians to address these challenges and thereby to f- ther our understanding of demographic processes in natural populations. Although many diverse organisms can be studied in the wild, birds have proved particularly amenable with large numbers being marked and followed by large networks of - servers. Itwas nocoincidencethenthatthe EuropeanUnionforBird Ringing(EUR- ING) played a leading role in these initiatives, teaming up in the mid-1980swith the Mathematical Ecology Group of the Biometric Society, and the British Ecological Society, to bring together experts from diverse ?elds to address the challenges in hand. Twenty years on, progresshas been considerable and we now have signi?cant insights into demographic processes thanks to the wide range of quantitative tools and systematically collected datasets which have been built up over this period.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 3
Release date:	December 2008
First published:	October 2008
Editors:	David L. Thomson • Evan G. Cooch • Michael J. Conroy
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 56mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	1132
Edition:	2009 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-387-78150-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > General Promotions
LSN:	0-387-78150-1
Barcode:	9780387781501

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