The Ecological Detective : : Confronting Models with Data (MPB-28) /

The Ecological Detective : : Confronting Models with Data (MPB-28) / / Marc Mangel, Ray Hilborn.

The modern ecologist usually works in both the field and laboratory, uses statistics and computers, and often works with ecological concepts that are model-based, if not model-driven. How do we make the field and laboratory coherent? How do we link models and data? How do we use statistics to help e...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
VerfasserIn:
Hilborn, Ray,
Mangel, Marc,
MitwirkendeR:
Chamberlain, T. C.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©1997
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Monographs in Population Biology ; 28
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 67 line illus. 27 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface: Beyond The Null Hypothesis
  • 1. An Ecological Scenario and the Tools of the Ecological Detective
  • 2. Alternative Views of the Scientific Method and of Modeling
  • 3. Probability and Probability Models: Know Your Data
  • 4. Incidental Catch in Fisheries: Seabirds in the New Zealand Squid Trawl Fishery
  • 5. The Confrontation: Sum of Squares
  • 6. The Evolutionary Ecology of Insect Oviposition Behavior
  • 7. The Confrontation: Likelihood and Maximum Likelihood
  • 8. Conservation Biology of Wildebeest in the Serengeti
  • 9. The Confrontation: Bayesian Goodness of Fit
  • 10. Management of Hake Fisheries in Namibia
  • 11. The Confrontation: Understanding How the Best Fit Is Found
  • APPENDIX. "The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses"
  • References
  • Index

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