Demographic methods across the tree of life /

"Demography is everywhere in our lives: from birth to death. Demography shapes our daily decisions, as well as the decisions that others make on us (e.g. bank loans, retirement age). Demography is everywhere across the Tree of Life. The universal currencies of demography--survival, development,...

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From lions, to lion's manes, to dandelions: how different types of demographic data and methods are selected and why --
Demographic Data Collection : From Genes to Environment --
Genetic data collection, pedigrees, and phylogenies /
Biochemical and physiological data collection /
Social data collection and analyses /
Growth rings across the Tree of Life : demographic insights from biogenic time series data /
Longitudinal demographic data collection /
Drivers of demography : past challenges and a promise for a changed future /
Data- and Research Question-Driven Methods --
Abundance-based approaches /
Life tables : construction and interpretation /
Introduction to matrix population models /
Integral projection models /
Transient analyses of population dynamics using matrix projection models /
Individual-based models /
Survival analyses Mathilde Le Moullec, William K. Petry, and Roberto Salguero-Gómez
Efficient use of demographic data : integrated population models /
Applications --
Spatial demography /
Evolutionary Demography /
Reproductive value and analyses of population dynamics of age-structured populations /
Applying comparative methods to different databases : lessons from demographic analyses across mammal species /
Adaptive management : making recurrent decisions in the face of uncertainty /
Heritability, polymorphism, and population dynamics : individual-based eco-evolutionary simulations /
Demographic processes in socially structured populations /
Demographic methods in epidemiology /
Hauptverfasser:
Salguero-Gómez, Roberto, Gamelon, Marlène
Weitere Verfasser:
Salguero-Gómez, Roberto (HerausgeberIn), Gamelon, Marlène (HerausgeberIn)
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Zusammenfassung:
"Demography is everywhere in our lives: from birth to death. Demography shapes our daily decisions, as well as the decisions that others make on us (e.g. bank loans, retirement age). Demography is everywhere across the Tree of Life. The universal currencies of demography--survival, development, reproduction, and recruitment--shape the performance of all species, from lions to dandelions. The omnipresence of demography in all things alive and dead, and its multiple applications to better understand the ecology, evolution, and conservation/management of species, allows us to--in principle--apply the wide array of quantitative methods to, for example, bacteria or humans. However, demographic methods to date have remained taxonomically siloed, despite the fact that, to a large extent, they are widely applicable across the Tree of Life. In this book, we walk nonexperts through the ABCs of data collection, model construction, analyses, and interpretation across a wide repertoire of demographic artillery. This book introduces the reader to some of the demographic methods, including abundance-based models, life tables, matrix population models, integral projection models, integrated population models, and individual based models, to mention a few. Through the careful integration of data collection methods, analytical approaches, and applications, clearly guided through fully reproducible R scripts, we provide a state-of-the-art thorough representation of many of the most popular tools that any demographer (or demographically inclined mind) should equip themselves with." --
Umfang:
1 online resource : illustrations
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-187478-7
0-19-257549-X
Schlagworte:
Population research.
Demography.
Demographic surveys > Methodology.
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