Case Applications of Statistical Models in Ecology & Evolution

Youhua Chen is interested in biodiversity conservation, biogeography, numerical ecology and computational biology. He has published over 70 papers in international journals and two monographs. He has a long-term interest of applying statistical and mathematical models to address biological and biogeographic questions. He is also interested in applying geographical information system, climate data and remote sensing data to assess the impacts of climate change, land use and human disturbance on species extinction.

Preface; Permutation-free Fishers Z-transform Method for Significance Testing of Mantels Statistic; Random Species/Population Change & Multiple-site Beta Diversity Indices: A Comparison of Contradictory Scenarios from Simulation- & Empirical BCI Tree-derived Data Sets; On the Relationship between Community-level Beta Diversity & Partitioning Variation for Space & Environment: BCI Tree Community as a Case Study; Distinguishing Niche & Neutral Processes: Issues in Variation Partitioning Statistical Methods & Further Perspectives; Estimating Ancestral Ranges in Historical Biogeography: On the Development of Alternative Range Evolution Models for Maximum Likelihood Inference; On the Relationships of Clade Age, Species Richness, & Phylogenetic Diversity of Global Mammals; Spatial Point Pattern Analysis of County Locations of Mainland China: The Relative Roles of Anthropogenic Factors, Climatic Fluctuation & Water Availability; Modeling Species-area Relationship with Measurement Uncertainty; Estimating Population Change of Species Under Climate Change Using Occupancy-abundance Relationship; Coexist: An R Package for Performing Species Coexistence Modeling & Analysis; Fitness Equivalence Promotes Species Coexistence under Fluctuating Environments with Simultaneous Coupling of Dispersal & Competition; Index.