Estimation of Morality Rates in Stage Structured Population - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0387539794 ISBN 13 : 9780387539799

Synopsis

Estimation of Mortality Rates in Stage-structured Populations Addresses one of the main problems of population ecology - the inferrence of mortality rates for a set of age classes or development stages. After a survey of previously published methods, the text introduces spline theory and explains how to overcome instabilities that arise during estimation. Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book addresses one of the major "inverse" problems in population ecology - that of inferring mortality rates from time series of population numbers for a set of age classes or developmental stages. The authors set out to provide a useful method for field ecologists, and a framework from which to approach such problems in future. After a survey of previously published methods, an analysis is given of some basic instabilities that arise in the process of mortality estimation from stage structured population data. A concise introduction to spline theory, and the derivation of some new results enables these instabilities to be overcome in a biologically sensible way. The resulting methods are then tested on simulated data, and their performance compared with that of previous methods. Finally a real system with three zooplankton species is investigated using the new methods.

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• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0387539794
• ISBN 13: 9780387539799
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible