Handbook of quantitative ecology /
Students and other researchers entering the fields of ecology and conservation biology often come with little computational or mathematics training, leaving them feeling unprepared to participate in the quantitative aspects of research in these fields. In this "low threshold, high ceiling"...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Change over time. Introducing difference equations; Duckweed on a pond : exponential growth; Throwing shade I : logistic growth; Throwing shade II : Lotka-Volterra competition; Rabies removal : SIR models
- Part II. Understanding uncertainty. Introducing probability; A bird in the cam I : single-variable probability; A bird in the cam II: two-variable probability; Picking ticks : Bayes's rule; Rabbit rates : probability distributions
- Part III. Modeling multiple states. Introducing matrix models; Imagine all the beetles : age-structured models; The road to succession : transition matrices; a pair of populations : absorption; Fish finders : diffusion
- Part IV. Explaining data. Introducing statistics; Seedling counts I : maximum likelihood; Seedling counts II : model selection; Flattened frogs I : generalized linear models; Flattened frogs II : hypothesis testing
- Part V. Expanding the toolbox. Other techniques ; Bird islands : graphical thinking; Max Plant Institute : optimization; Bears with me : stochastic simulation; Natives in the neighborhood : cellular automata.