Applied Hierarchical Modeling in Ecology: Analysis of Distribution, Abundance and Species Richness in R and BUGS

Marc Kery is a population ecologist with the Swiss Ornithological Institute and a courtesy professor at the University of Zurich. He is an expert in the estimation and modeling of abundance, distribution and species richness in animal and plant populations and has coauthored approximately 100 peer-reviewed articles and four books. Dr Royle is a Senior Scientist and Research Statistician at the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. His research is focused on the application of probability and statistics to ecological problems, especially those related to animal sampling and demographic modeling. Much of his research over the last 10 years has been devoted to the development of methods illustrated in our new book. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 journal articles, and co-authored the books Spatial Capture Recapture, Hierarchical Modeling and Inference in Ecology and Occupancy Estimation and Modeling: Inferring Patterns and Dynamics of Species Occurrence, all published by Academic Press.

PART 1 MODELS FOR DYNAMIC SYSTEMS 1. Relative Abundance Models for Population Dynamics 2. Modeling Population Dynamics With Count Data 3. Hierarchical Models of Survival 4. Modeling Species Distribution and Range Dynamics, and Population Dynamics Using Dynamic Occupancy Models 5. Modeling Metacommunity Dynamics Using Dynamic Community Models

PART 2 ADVANCED MODELS 6. Multi-state Occupancy Models 7. Modeling False Positives 8. Modeling Interactions Among Species 9. Spatial Models of Distribution and Abundance 10. Integrated Models for Multiple Types of Data 11. Spatially Explicit Distance Sampling Along Transects 12. Conclusions