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Delimiting synchronous populations from monitoring data

Environmental and Ecological Statistics volume 20, pages 337–352 (2013)Cite this article

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We propose to investigate spatial synchrony in population dynamics from monitoring data. We develop a statistical procedure to delineate populations of sites with synchronous dynamics from short time series. The procedure relies on a new norm, the synchronous total variation norm, which promotes synchrony in the estimation of the sites dynamics. The method is tested on some synthetic data sets and is applied on data from the French breeding bird monitoring program.

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  1. CMAP, UMR CNRS 7641, Ecole Polytechnique, Route de Saclay, 91128, Palaiseau Cedex, France

    Christophe Giraud

  2. CERSP, UMR MNHN-CNRS-UPMC 7204, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 61 rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France

    Romain Julliard & Emmanuelle Porcher

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Giraud, C., Julliard, R. & Porcher, E. Delimiting synchronous populations from monitoring data. Environ Ecol Stat 20, 337–352 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10651-012-0222-3

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Keywords

  • Monitoring data
  • Penalized log-likelihood
  • Primal-dual optimization
  • Synchronous population
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