Estimation of Mortality Rates in Stage-Structured Population /
This book addresses one of the major "inverse" problems in population ecology - that of inferring mortality rates from time series of population numbers for a set of age classes or developmental stages. The authors set out to provide a useful method for field ecologists, and a framework fr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
1991.
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| Series: | Lecture notes in biomathematics ;
90. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book addresses one of the major "inverse" problems in population ecology - that of inferring mortality rates from time series of population numbers for a set of age classes or developmental stages. The authors set out to provide a useful method for field ecologists, and a framework from which to approach such problems in future. After a survey of previously published methods, an analysis is given of some basic instabilities that arise in the process of mortality estimation from stage structured population data. A concise introduction to spline theory, and the derivation of some new results enables these instabilities to be overcome in a biologically sensible way. The resulting methods are then tested on simulated data, and their performance compared with that of previous methods. Finally a real system with three zooplankton species is investigated using the new methods. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 101 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783642499791 (electronic bk.) 3642499791 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 0341-633X ; |