Demographic Methods across the Tree of Life
«This book is a gold mine of modern demographic tools, research ideas, and applications and presents solutions through the use of cutting-edge demographic tools and frameworks applied to data collected across the tree of life.»
Lise M. Aubry, Quarterly Review of Biology
Demography is everywhere in our lives: from birth to death. Indeed, the universal currencies of survival, development, reproduction, and recruitment shape the performance of all species, from microbes to humans. Les mer
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technologies such as GIS and drones, as well as analytical methods including Bayesian statistics and high-throughput molecular analyses. However, despite the universality of demography and the significant research potential that could emerge from unifying: (i) questions across taxa, (ii) data collection
protocols, and (iii) analytical tools, demographic methods to date have remained taxonomically siloed and methodologically disintegrated. This is the first book to attempt a truly unified approach to demography and population ecology in order to address a wide range of questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation biology across the entire spectrum of life.
This novel book provides the reader with the fundamentals of data collection, model construction, analyses, and interpretation across a wide repertoire of demographic techniques and protocols. It introduces the novice demographer to a broad range of demographic methods, including abundance-based models, life tables, matrix population models, integral projection models, integrated population models, individual based models, and more. Through the careful integration of data collection methods,
analytical approaches, and applications, clearly guided throughout with fully reproducible R scripts, the book provides an up-to-date and authoritative overview of the most popular and effective demographic tools.
Demographic Methods across the Tree of Life is aimed at graduate students and professional researchers in the fields of demography, ecology, animal behaviour, genetics, evolutionary biology, mathematical biology, and wildlife management.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780198838609
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 25 x 20 cm
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«This book is a gold mine of modern demographic tools, research ideas, and applications and presents solutions through the use of cutting-edge demographic tools and frameworks applied to data collected across the tree of life.»
Lise M. Aubry, Quarterly Review of Biology
«This book is a very carefully crafted, wide-ranging collection of contributions, which are almost without exception of high quality and report useful ideas, resources, and approaches. The collective authority of the authors is impressive, as is the range of approaches reviewed. The book is sufficiently comprehensive to age slowly, and the cited references and case studies make for excellent starting points when delving into specific topics. The audience is any quantitative ecological lab and demography university course at graduate or higher level.»
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