Handbook of Capture-Recapture Analysis

✍ Scribed by Steven C. Amstrup (editor); Trent L. McDonald (editor); Bryan F. J. Manly (editor)

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 333
• Edition: Course Book
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

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