Applied Hierarchical Modeling in Ecology: Analysis of Distribution, Abundance and Species Richness in R and BUGS
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Volume 2: Dynamic and Advanced Models
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Applied Hierarchical Modeling in Ecology: Analysis of Distribution, Abundance and Species Richness in R and BUGS, Volume Two: Dynamic and Advanced Models provides a synthesis of the state-of-the-art in hierarchical models for plant and animal distribution, also focusing on the complex and more advanced models currently available. The book explains all procedures in the context of hierarchical models that represent a unified approach to ecological research, thus taking the reader from design, through data collection, and into analyses using a very powerful way of synthesizing data.
Key Features
- Makes ecological modeling accessible to people who are struggling to use complex or advanced modeling programs
- Synthesizes current ecological models and explains how they are inter-connected
- Contains numerous examples throughout the book, walking the reading through scenarios with both real and simulated data
- Provides an ideal resource for ecologists working in R software and in BUGS software for more flexible Bayesian analyses
Readership
Graduate students and professionals in ecology, biogeography, conservation biology, fisheries and wildlife management
Table of Contents
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
Details
- No. of pages:
- 820
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © Academic Press 2021
- Published:
- 19th October 2020
- Imprint:
- Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN:
- 9780128237687
- eBook ISBN:
- 9780128097274
About the Authors

Marc Kéry
Dr Kéry is a Population Ecologist with the Swiss Ornithological Institute and a courtesy professor ("Privatdozent") at the University of Zürich/Switzerland, from where he received his PhD in Ecology in 2000. He is an expert in the estimation and modeling of abundance, distribution and species richness in "metapopulation designs" (i.e., collections of replicate sites). For most of his work, he uses the Bayesian model fitting software BUGS and JAGS, about which he has published three books with Academic Press (2010, 2012 and 2016). He has authored/coauthored over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and is teaching statistical modeling workshops about the methods in this book at research institutes and universities all over the world.
Affiliations and Expertise
Population Ecologist, Swiss Ornithological Institute, Switzerland

J. Royle
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.
Affiliations and Expertise
Research Statistician, U.S. Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD, USA
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