Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations

Much of biology can be understood in terms of demography. It is the demographic processes of birth and death which govern rates of population growth and the rates at which gene frequencies change. The analysis of demographic processes in free-living organisms is, however, far from simple. Scientists from diverse fields in biology and statistics have united to address the challenges by developing mark-recapture methods and other approaches. Progress has been rapid, and this volume represents a snapshot of the emerging field. It has eleven sections in total, covering the most important biological and statistical frontiers, new software developments, and an open forum. It covers the latest approaches in modeling population dynamics, evolutionary ecology and wildlife biology. It addresses issues in the estimation of abundance and movement, and it covers new statistical approaches in the combination of information, Bayesian statistics, Robust Designs and the modeling of state-uncertainty.

• Demographic Processes
• Migration
• abundance estimation
• conservation management
• currentlindy
• demographic rates
• ecology
• environmental sciences
• evolutionary ecology
• population dynamics
• statistical method
• wildlife conservation

• Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, D18057 Rostock, Germany

  David L Thomson

• Netherlands Institute of Ecology Centre for Terrestrial Ecology, Postbus 40, Netherlands

  David L Thomson

• School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

  David L Thomson

• Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

  Evan G. Cooch

• D.B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources University of Georgia, Athens, USA

  Michael J. Conroy

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