Wildlife Demography - Analysis of Sex, Age, and Count Data

Hardback  656 pp  ISBN 0120887738      £44.00

• Applicable to a wide array of wildlife species, including game and non-game birds and mammals
• Features more than 100 annotated examples illustrating application of statistical methods
• Includes more than 640 references of the analysis of nontagging data and the factors that may influence interpretation
• Derives historical and ad hoc demographic methods in a modern statistical framework

Wildlife Demography compiles the multitude of available estimation techniques based on sex and age data, and presents these varying techniques in one organized, unified volume. Designed to guide researchers to the most appropriate estimator based upon their particular data set and the desired level of study precision, this book provides quantitative consideration, statistical models, estimator variance, assumptions and examples of use.

The authors focus on estimation techniques using sex and age ratios because this data is relatively easy to collect and commonly used by wildlife management

Contents

• Ch. 1: Introduction
• Ch. 2: Primer on Wildlife Population Dynamics
• Ch. 3: Estimating Population Sex Ratios
• Ch. 4: Estimating Productivity
• Ch. 5: Estimating Survival
• Ch. 6: Estimating Harvest and Harvest Mortality
• Ch. 7: Estimating the Rate of Population Change
• Ch. 8: Analysis of Population Indices
• Ch. 9: Estimating Population Abundance
• Ch.10: Integration of Analytical Techniques
• Ch.11: Literature Cited

Appendix A: Statistical Concepts and Theory
Appendix B: Glossary of Symbols
Appendix C: Program USER
Appendix D: Mathematica Code for Calculating the Variance of the Finite Rate of Population Change, VAR, from a Matrix Population Model