Abstract
Ecology has to do with the number of individuals or species in a biological population or community. Historically, the estimation of population size has been approached with different field methods and statistical analyses. One of the recent approaches to estimating population abundance, occupancy, and density is the use of hierarchical models. Essentially, these models integrate the ecological process (occupancy, abundance, and density) conditional to the observational process (the detection probability, usually <1.0) and estimate parameters through maximum likelihood and/or Bayesian statistical approaches. Occupancy, abundance, and density are central themes in many research projects, theses, and monitoring programs and have direct applications in the conservation and management of Neotropical mammal populations. In this introductory chapter, we briefly address these aspects to put in context the chapters that integrate this book.
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Mandujano, S., Naranjo, E.J., Andrade-Ponce, G.P. (2023). Neotropical Mammals and the Analysis of Occupancy and Abundance. In: Mandujano, S., Naranjo, E.J., Andrade Ponce, G.P. (eds) Neotropical Mammals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39566-6_1
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