Timothy E Essington

Introduction to Quantitative Ecology

Mathematical and Statistical Modelling for Beginners

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Environmental science (ecology, conservation, and resource management) is an increasingly quantitative field. This accessible textbook introduces quantitative ecology in a manner that aims to confront the limitations of the current literature and thereby appeal to a far wider audience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780192843470
• ISBN-10: 0192843478
• Artikelnr.: 62039734

Autorenporträt

Timothy E. Essington is a Professor at the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, USA. He is also Director of the Center for Quantitative Sciences and of the University of Washington's QERM Graduate Program. His research chiefly focuses on food web interactions involving fish in marine, estuarine and freshwater habitats.

Inhaltsangabe

About This Book
Part I: Fundamentals of Dynamic Models
1: Why Do We Model?
2: Introduction to Population Models
3: Structured Population Models
4: Competition and Predation Models
5: Stochastic Population Models
Part II: Fitting Models to Data
6: Why Fit Models to Data?
7: Random Variables and Probability
8: Likelihood and Its Applications
10: Model Selection
10: Bayesian Statistics
Part III: Skills
11: Mathematics Refresher
12: Modeling in Spreadsheets
13: Modeling in R
14: Skills for Dynamic Models
15: Sensitivity Analysis
16: Skills for Fitting Models to Data
Part IV: Putting It All Together and Next Steps
17: Putting It Together : Fitting a Dynamic Model
18: Next Steps