Approaches for the direct estimation of lambda, and demographic contributions to lambda, using capture-recapture data
J.D. Nichols, J.E. Hines
2002, Book chapter, Statistical analysis of data from marked bird populations
We first consider the estimation of the finite rate of population increase or population growth rate, lambda sub i, using capture-recapture data from open populations. We review estimation and modelling of lambda sub i under three main approaches to modelling open-population data: the classic approach of Jolly (1965) and...
Statistical mapping of count survey data
J. Andrew Royle, W.A. Link, J.R. Sauer
J. Michael Scott, Patricia J. Heglund, Michael L. Morrison, Jonathan B. Haufler, William A. Wall, editor(s)
2002, Book chapter, Predicting species occurrences : issues of accuracy and scale
We apply a Poisson mixed model to the problem of mapping (or predicting) bird relative abundance from counts collected from the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS). The model expresses the logarithm of the Poisson mean as a sum of a fixed term (which may depend on habitat variables)...
Series forward
J.M. Weeks, S. O’Hare, Barnett A. Rattner
Geoffrey I. Sunahara, Agnes Y. Renoux, Claude Thellen, Connie L. Gaudet, Adrien Pilon, editor(s)
2002, Book chapter, Environmental Analysis of Contaminated Sites
Discussion comments on: 'Occam's shadow: levels of analysis in evolutionary ecology - where to next? by Cooch, Cam and Link
J.D. Nichols
2002, Book chapter, Statistical analysis of data from marked bird populations
Monitoring tiger populations: Why use capture-recapture sampling?
K. U. Karanth, J.D. Nichols
K.Ullas Karanth, James D. Nichols, editor(s)
2002, Book chapter, Monitoring tigers and their prey: A manual for wildlife researchers, managers and conservationists in tropical Asia
Contents: -- The natural advantage -- References...
Test for age-specificity in survival of the common tern
I.C.T. Nisbet, E. Cam
2002, Book chapter, Statistical analysis of data from marked bird populations
Much effort in life-history theory has been addressed to the dependence of life-history traits on age, especially the phenomenon of senescence and its evolution. Although senescent declines in survival are well documented in humans and in domestic and laboratory animals, evidence for their occurrence and importance in wild animal...
Monitoring tigers and prey: conservation needs and managerial constraints
K. U. Karanth, J.D. Nichols, P.K. Sen, V. Rishi
K.Ullas Karanth, James D. Nichols, editor(s)
2002, Book chapter, Monitoring tigers and their prey: A manual for wildlife researchers, managers and conservationists in tropical Asia
Contents: -- Introduction -- The sampling-based approach to monitoring -- Defining objectives -- Assessing available resources -- Decision making: Matching objectives and resources -- References...
Contrasting determinants of abundance in ancestral and colonized ranges of an invasive brood parasite
D.C. Hahn, R.J. O’Connor
J. Michael Scott, Patricia J. Heglund, Michael L. Morrison, Jonathan B. Haufler, William A. Wall, editor(s)
2002, Book chapter, Predicting Species Occurrences : Issues of Accuracy and Scale
Avian species distributions are typically regarded as constrained by spatially extensive variables such as climate, habitat, spatial patchiness, and microhabitat attributes. We hypothesized that the distribution of a brood parasite depends as strongly on host distribution patterns as on biophysical factors and examined this hypothesis with respect to the...
The use of resighting data to estimate the rate of population growth of the snail kite in Florida
V.J. Dreitz, J.D. Nichols, J.E. Hines, R.E. Bennetts, W.M. Kitchens, D.L. DeAngelis
2002, Journal of Applied Statistics (29) 609-623
The rate of population growth (lambda) is an important demographic parameter used to assess the viability of a population and to develop management and conservation agendas. We examined the use of resighting data to estimate lambda for the snail kite population in Florida from 1997-2000. The analyses consisted of (1)...
Random effects and shrinkage estimation in capture-recapture models
J. Andrew Royle, W.A. Link
2002, Book chapter, Statistical analysis of data from marked bird populations
We discuss the analysis of random effects in capture-recapture models, and outline Bayesian and frequentists approaches to their analysis. Under a normal model, random effects estimators derived from Bayesian or frequentist considerations have a common form as shrinkage estimators. We discuss some of the difficulties of analysing random...
Model-based estimation of individual fitness
W.A. Link, E.G. Cooch, E. Cam
2002, Book chapter, Statistical analysis of data from marked bird populations
Fitness is the currency of natural selection, a measure of the propagation rate of genotypes into future generations. Its various definitions have the common feature that they are functions of survival and fertility rates. At the individual level, the operative level for natural selection, these rates must be...
Investigations of potential bias in the estimation of lambda using Pradel's (1996) model for capture-recapture data
J.E. Hines, J.D. Nichols
2002, Book chapter, Statistical analysis of data from marked bird populations
Pradel's (1996) temporal symmetry model permitting direct estimation and modelling of population growth rate, lambda sub i provides a potentially useful tool for the study of population dynamics using marked animals. Because of its recent publication date, the approach has not seen much use, and there have been virtually...
Influence of behavioural tactics on recruitment and reproductive trajectory in the kittiwake
E. Cam, B. Cadiou, J.E. Hines
2002, Book chapter, Statistical analysis of data from marked bird populations
Many studies have provided evidence that, in birds, inexperienced breeders have a lower probability of breeding successfully. This is often explained by lack of skills and knowledge, and sometimes late laying dates in the first breeding attempt. There is growing evidence that in many species with deferred reproduction,...
American black duck summer range versus winter range: a dichotomy of riches
J. R. Longcore
Matthew C. Perry, editor(s)
2002, Book chapter, Black Ducks and Their Chesapeake Bay Habitats: Proceedings of a Symposium
The status of the American black duck (Anas rubripes) population has more often been attributed to a single event than to multiple events over time and throughout space. The difference in the quality of the habitat, however defined, within breeding areas in the North and in the southerly wintering...
Preface
Matthew C. Perry
Matthew C. Perry, editor(s)
2002, Book chapter, Black ducks and their Chesapeake Bay habitats : proceedings of a symposium
Breeding productivity of Smith Island black ducks
G.M. Haramis, Dennis G. Jorde, Glenn H. Olsen, Daniel B. Stotts, M.K. Harrison
Matthew C. Perry, editor(s)
2002, Book chapter, Black ducks and their Chesapeake Bay habitats : proceedings of a symposium
We investigated the breeding performance of American black ducks (Anas rubripes) on Smith Island, Chesapeake Bay, to improve our understanding of island black duck breeding ecology and to make management recommendations to enhance productivity. During 1995-96, we implanted 56 female black ducks with 20-g radio transmitters and tracked 35...
Field testing of immunocontraception on white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) on Fire Island National Seashore, New York, USA
R.E. Naugle, A.T. Rutberg, H.B. Underwood, J.W. Turner Jr., I.K. Liu
J.F. Kirkpatrick, B.L. Lasley, W.R. Allen, C. Doberska, editor(s)
2002, Book chapter, Fertility Control in Wildlife: Fifth International Symposium on Fertility Control in Wildlife, Skukuza, The Kruger National Park, South Africa, August 2001
Application of contraception for the control of suburban populations of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) has been much debated, but few data are available on field applications and even fewer on population effects. Between 1993 and 1997, 74-164 individually known female deer living on Fire Island, New York, USA, were...
Evaluation of genetic variability in a small, insular population of spruce grouse
A.F. O'Connell Jr., Judith Rhymer, D.M. Keppie, K.L. Svenson, B.J. Paigan
2002, Book chapter, 9th International Grouse Symposium, 19-23 August, 2002, Beijing: Abstracts
Using microsatellite markers we determined genetic variability for two populations of spruce grouse in eastern North America, one on a coastal Maine island where breeding habitat is limited and highly fragmented, the other in central New Brunswick (NB), where suitable breeding habitat is generally contiguous across the region. We...
Supplemental planting of early successional tree species during bottomland hardwood afforestation
D.J. Twedt, R.R. Wilson
Kenneth W. Outcalt, editor(s)
2002, Book chapter, Proceedings of the Eleventh Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference, Knoxville, TN, 20-22 March 2001
Reforestation of former bottom land hardwood forests that have been cleared for agriculture (i.e., afforestation) has historically emphasized planting heavy-seeded oaks (Quercus spp.) and pecans (Carya spp.). These species are slow to develop vertical forest structure. However, vertical forest structure is key to colonization of afforested sites by forest...
Introduction: Managing wetlands for waterbirds: Integrated approaches
K.C. Parsons, S.C. Brown, R.M. Erwin, H.A. Czech, J.C. Coulson
Katharine C. Parsons, Stephen C. Brown, R. Michael Erwin, Helen A. Czech, John C. Coulson, editor(s)
2002, Book chapter, Managing wetlands for waterbirds: Integrated approaches
Microscopic analysis of feather and hair fragments associated with human mummified remains from Kagamil Island, Alaska
C.J. Dove, S.C. Peurach
Bruno Frohlich, Albert B. Harper, Rolf Gilberg, editor(s)
2002, Book chapter, To the Aleutians and beyond: the anthropology of William S. Laughlin
Human mummified remains of 34 different infant and adult individuals from Kagamil Island, Alaska, are accessioned in the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Kagamil Island is one of the small islands in the Island of Four Mountains group of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska and...
Summary
Matthew C. Perry
Matthew C. Perry, editor(s)
2002, Book chapter, Black ducks and their Chesapeake Bay habitats : proceedings of a symposium
The exotic mute swan (Cygnus olor) in Chesapeake Bay, USA
Matthew C. Perry
Matthew C. Perry, editor(s)
2002, Book chapter, Black ducks and their Chesapeake Bay habitats : proceedings of a symposium
The exotic mute swan (Cygnus olor) has increased its population size in Chesapeake Bay (Maryland and Virginia) to approximately 4,500 since 1962 when five swans were released in the Bay. The Bay population of mute swans now represents 30% of the total Atlantic Flyway population (12,600) and has had...
Understanding food webs in the Chesapeake Bay
J.R. Keough, G.M. Haramis, Matthew C. Perry
Matthew C. Perry, editor(s)
2002, Book chapter, Black ducks and their Chesapeake Bay habitats : proceedings of a symposium
Approaches to predictive modeling and to management of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem are 'bottom up' (i.e., approaches involve the control of nutrient inputs in attempts to manage plankton productivity) and 'top down' (i.e., approaches involve controls on harvest of fisheries and wildlife in attempts to manage vertebrate populations). Both...
Reconstruction of Anacostia wetlands: success?
R.S. Hammerschlag
Matthew C. Perry, editor(s)
2002, Book chapter, Black ducks and their Chesapeake Bay habitats : proceedings of a symposium
Historically, the tidal Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. had been an extensive system of freshwater tidal marshes replete with a full array of wetland vegetation dominated by wild rice. The local Nacochtank Indians had found the abundant fish and wildlife sufficient to sustain their daily lives. White man's...
