Handbook of Capture-Recapture Analysis / / ed. by Steven C. Amstrup, Bryan F. J. Manly, Trent L. McDonald.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Alpizar-Jara, Russell,; Amstrup, Steven C.,; Barker, Richard J.,; Chao, Anne,; Hearn, William,; Hoenig, John M.,; Huggins, Richard M.,; Manly, Bryan F. J.,; McDonald, Trent L.,; Nichols, James D.,; Pollock, Kenneth H.,; Regehr, Eric V.,; Schwarz, Carl J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Amstrup, Steven C.,; Manly, Bryan F. J.,; McDonald, Trent L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 20 halftones. 6 line illus. 74 tables.

Every day, biologists in parkas, raincoats, and rubber boots go into the field to capture and mark a variety of animal species. Back in the office, statisticians create analytical models for the field biologists' data. But many times, representatives of the two professions do not fully understand one another's roles. This book bridges this gap by helping biologists understand state-of-the-art statistical methods for analyzing capture-recapture data. In so doing, statisticians will also become more familiar with the design of field studies and with the real-life issues facing biologists. Reliable outcomes of capture-recapture studies are vital to answering key ecological questions. Is the population increasing or decreasing? Do more or fewer animals have a particular characteristic? In answering these questions, biologists cannot hope to capture and mark entire populations. And frequently, the populations change unpredictably during a study. Thus, increasingly sophisticated models have been employed to convert data into answers to ecological questions. This book, by experts in capture-recapture analysis, introduces the most up-to-date methods for data analysis while explaining the theory behind those methods. Thorough, concise, and portable, it will be immensely useful to biologists, biometricians, and statisticians, students in both fields, and anyone else engaged in the capture-recapture process.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- One. Introduction to the Handbook -- Two. Classical Closed-population Capture-Recapture Models -- Three. Classical Open-population Capture-Recapture Models -- Four. Modern Closed-population Capture-Recapture Models -- Five. Modern Open-population Capture-Recapture Models -- Six. Tag-recovery Models -- Seven. Joint Modeling of Tag-recovery and Live-resighting Data -- Eight. Multistate Models -- Nine. Examples -- Ten. Capture-Recapture Methods in Practice -- Appendix -- References -- Contributor's Notes -- Index