The Ecological Detective

Author : Ray Hilborn,Marc Mangel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400847310

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The Ecological Detective by Ray Hilborn,Marc Mangel Pdf

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 experimentation? How do we integrate modeling and statistics? How do we confront multiple hypotheses with data and assign degrees of belief to different hypotheses? How do we deal with time series (in which data are linked from one measurement to the next) or put multiple sources of data into one inferential framework? These are the kinds of questions asked and answered by The Ecological Detective. Ray Hilborn and Marc Mangel investigate ecological data much as a detective would investigate a crime scene by trying different hypotheses until a coherent picture emerges. The book is not a set of pat statistical procedures but rather an approach. The Ecological Detective makes liberal use of computer programming for the generation of hypotheses, exploration of data, and the comparison of different models. The authors' attitude is one of exploration, both statistical and graphical. The background required is minimal, so that students with an undergraduate course in statistics and ecology can profitably add this work to their tool-kit for solving ecological problems.

Author : Ray Hilborn,Marc Mangel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:405856401

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The Ecological Detective by Ray Hilborn,Marc Mangel Pdf

Author : Eric Parent,Etienne Rivot
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781584889205

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Introduction to Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling for Ecological Data by Eric Parent,Etienne Rivot Pdf

Making statistical modeling and inference more accessible to ecologists and related scientists, Introduction to Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling for Ecological Data gives readers a flexible and effective framework to learn about complex ecological processes from various sources of data. It also helps readers get started on building their own statisti

Author : Benjamin M. Bolker
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780691125220

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Ecological Models and Data in R by Benjamin M. Bolker Pdf

Introduction and background; Exploratory data analysis and graphics; Deterministic functions for ecological modeling; Probability and stochastic distributions for ecological modeling; Stochatsic simulation and power analysis; Likelihood and all that; Optimization and all that; Likelihood examples; Standar statistics revisited; Modeling variance; Dynamic models.

Author : British Ecological Society. Symposium
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521549353

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The Ecological Consequences of Environmental Heterogeneity by British Ecological Society. Symposium Pdf

A wide-ranging review of the effects of heterogeneity on individuals, populations, communities and biodiversity.

Author : Ian Billick,Mary V. Price
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226050447

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The Ecology of Place by Ian Billick,Mary V. Price Pdf

Ecologists can spend a lifetime researching a small patch of the earth, studying the interactions between organisms and the environment, and exploring the roles those interactions play in determining distribution, abundance, and evolutionary change. With so few ecologists and so many systems to study, generalizations are essential. But how do you extrapolate knowledge about a well-studied area and apply it elsewhere? Through a range of original essays written by eminent ecologists and naturalists, The Ecology of Place explores how place-focused research yields exportable general knowledge as well as practical local knowledge, and how society can facilitate ecological understanding by investing in field sites, place-centered databases, interdisciplinary collaborations, and field-oriented education programs that emphasize natural history. This unique patchwork of case-study narratives, philosophical musings, and historical analyses is tied together with commentaries from editors Ian Billick and Mary Price that develop and synthesize common threads. The result is a unique volume rich with all-too-rare insights into how science is actually done, as told by scientists themselves.

Author : Mark Jaffe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biological invasions
ISBN : UCSD:31822020600326

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And No Birds Sing by Mark Jaffe Pdf

The story of the search for the reason behind the decimation of Guam's bird population, and the efforts to combat the cause, a snake that had accidentily been introduced to the island.

Author : Ada Graham,Frank Graham
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : 0385018282

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The Careless Animal by Ada Graham,Frank Graham Pdf

Discusses nine cases throughout the world where man's careless actions have had unexpected results on his environment.

Author : B.B. Manly,L. McDonald,D.L. Thomas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401115582

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Resource Selection by Animals by B.B. Manly,L. McDonald,D.L. Thomas Pdf

We have written this book as a guide to the design and analysis of field studies of resource selection, concentrating primarily on statistical aspects of the comparison of the use and availability of resources of different types. Our in tended audience is field ecologists in general and wildlife biologists in particular who are attempting to measure the extent to which real animal populations are selective in their choice of food and habitat. As such, we have made no attempt to address those aspects of theoretical ecology that are concerned with how animals might choose their resources if they acted in an optimal manner. The book is based on the concept of a resource selection function, where this is a function of characteristics measured on resource units such that its value for a unit is proportional to the probability of that unit being used. We argue that this concept leads to a unified theory for the analysis and interpretation of data on resource selection and can replace many ad hoc statistical methods that have been used in the past.

Author : William K. Michener,James W. Brunt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444311396

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Ecological Data by William K. Michener,James W. Brunt Pdf

Ecologists are increasingly tackling difficult issues like global change, loss of biodiversity and sustainability of ecosystem services. These and related topics are enormously challenging, requiring unprecedented multidisciplinary collaboration and rapid synthesis of large amounts of diverse data into information and ultimately knowledge. New sensors, computers, data collection and storage devices and analytical and statistical methods provide a powerful tool kit to support analyses, graphics and visualizations that were unthinkable even a few years ago. New and increased emphasis on accessibility, management, processing and sharing of high-quality, well-maintained and understandable data represents a significant change in how scientists view and treat data. These issues are complex and despite their importance, are typically not addressed in database, ecological and statistical textbooks. This book addresses these issues, providing a much needed resource for those involved in designing and implementing ecological research, as well as students who are entering the environmental sciences. Chapters focus on the design of ecological studies, data management principles, scientific databases, data quality assurance, data documentation, archiving ecological data and information and processing data into information and knowledge. The book stops short of a detailed treatment of data analysis, but does provide pointers to the relevant literature in graphics, statistics and knowledge discovery. The central thesis of the book is that high quality data management systems are critical for addressing future environmental challenges. This requires a new approach to how we conduct ecological research, that views data as a resource and promotes stewardship, recycling and sharing of data. Ecological Data will be particularly useful to those ecologists and information specialists that actively design, manage and analyze environmental databases. However, it will also benefit a wider audience of scientists and students in the ecological and environmental sciences.

Author : John Harte
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520369887

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The Green Fuse by John Harte Pdf

A widely respected ecological scientist and activist draws on the poet's image and his own environmental research to demonstrate the many interconnections among the world's ecosystems. John Harte takes us from Alaskan salmon runs and the Florida everglades to South Pacific coral reefs and the bleak Tibetan plateau. The result is that rare book that bridges the cultures of science and art. Lyrical, vivid portraits of natural wonders and the threats to them are combined with precise scientific accounts of natural processes and their disturbances. The Green Fuse will show nonscientists the fascination of ecological detective work and renew scientists' love for the beauty of the world under their microscopes. Harte's stories illuminate, without sermonizing, the damage to natural systems brought about by technological hubris and calculated political ruthlessness. "The green fuse" symbolizes the basic unity behind natural diversity. But a fuse may also be the weak link in an overloaded system or the slow burning wick on an ecological bomb. As The Green Fuse reminds us, the energies that created human liberation from nature can also be those that lead to the human destruction of nature. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

Author : Michael A. McCarthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139463874

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Bayesian Methods for Ecology by Michael A. McCarthy Pdf

The interest in using Bayesian methods in ecology is increasing, however many ecologists have difficulty with conducting the required analyses. McCarthy bridges that gap, using a clear and accessible style. The text also incorporates case studies to demonstrate mark-recapture analysis, development of population models and the use of subjective judgement. The advantages of Bayesian methods, are also described here, for example, the incorporation of any relevant prior information and the ability to assess the evidence in favour of competing hypotheses. Free software is available as well as an accompanying web-site containing the data files and WinBUGS codes. Bayesian Methods for Ecology will appeal to academic researchers, upper undergraduate and graduate students of Ecology.

Author : Robert E. White,Karyn Cooper
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030851248

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Qualitative Research in the Post-Modern Era by Robert E. White,Karyn Cooper Pdf

This volume describes and discusses some of the intricacies associated with qualitative research in this post-modern era. It is the second of a two-volume set. It strives to define terms, identifies paradigms, methodologies and approaches that are applicable to novice and expert researchers alike. The book pays special attention to the biographies of those individuals who have helped to shape and develop these methodologies or research designs. In addition, consideration is given to historical and political underpinnings that relate to the development of qualitative research methodologies. Each research design is described in detail and the similarities and differences among them are explored. This volume makes use of a contextual approach to research and features interviews with scholars who have assisted in developing such methodologies. Of interest are numerous features such as questions for further study and annotated bibliographies that extend the scope of each of the methodologies described.

Author : Bridget Stutchbury
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781443400992

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Bird Detective by Bridget Stutchbury Pdf

A Yale-educated professor of biology and a GG finalist for Silence of the Songbirds, Bridget Stutchbury roams forests studying the social lives and sexual antics of birds, sharing with us the curious reasons for their strange behaviour, bright colouring and elaborate songs. Are birds truly faithful to their mates? Stutchbury explains the science behind the surprisingly sophisticated and often amusing habits of birds, drawing on examples from around the world. In The Bird Detective, the author explains why some birds readily “divorce,” why parents don’t treat their sons and daughters equally, why females sneak in quick sex with neighbouring males and why some adults forgo breeding altogether. Stutchbury writes about the territorial nature of birds and describes their nesting habits, revealing why some species prefer to live in over-crowded groups. Perhaps most important, she illuminates how climate change and other pressures of the modern world are forcing birds to change their habits as they fight for their very survival.

Author : Beatrix Beisner
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 008045786X

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Ecological Paradigms Lost by Beatrix Beisner Pdf

This edited volume in the Theoretical Ecology series addresses the historical development and evolution of theoretical ideas in the field of ecology. Not only does Ecological Paradigms Lost recount the history of the discipline by practitioners of the science of ecology, it includes commentary on these historical reflections by philosophers of science. Even though the theories discussed are, in many cases, are at the forefront of research, the language and approach make this material accessible to non-theoreticians. The book is structured in 5 major sections including population ecology, epidemiology, community ecology, evolutionary biology and ecosystem ecology. In each section a chapter by an eminent, experienced ecologist is complemented by analysis from a newer, cutting-edge researcher. Reflection on the past and future of ecology A historical overview of major ideas in the field of ecology Pairing of historical views by ecologists along with a philosophical commentary directed at the practicing scientists' views by a philosopher of science Historical analysis by practicing ecologists including anectodal experiences that are rarely recorded Based on a very popular symposium at the 2002 Ecological Society of America annual meeting in Tucson, AZ