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Book SynopsisThis novel book provides the reader with the fundamentals of data collection, model construction, analyses, and interpretation across a wide repertoire of demographic techniques and protocols, clearly guided throughout with fully reproducible R scripts.
Trade ReviewThis book is a gold mine of modern demographic tools, research ideas, and applications and presents solutions through the use of cutting-edge demographic tools and frameworks applied to data collected across the tree of life. * Lise M. Aubry, Quarterly Review of Biology *
This book is a very carefully crafted, wide-ranging collection of contributions, which are almost without exception of high quality and report useful ideas, resources, and approaches. The collective authority of the authors is impressive, as is the range of approaches reviewed. The book is sufficiently comprehensive to age slowly, and the cited references and case studies make for excellent starting points when delving into specific topics. The audience is any quantitative ecological lab and demography university course at graduate or higher level. * Basic and Applied Ecology *
Table of ContentsTim Coulson: Foreword Roberto Salguero-Gómez and Marlène Gamelon: Introduction: From Lions, to Lion's Manes, and Dandelions: Why Using (which types of) Demographic Data and Methods Part I: Demographic Data Collection: From Genes to Environment 1: Emily G. Simmonds, Henrik Jensen, Alina Niskanen and Steven Smith: Genetic Data Collection, Pedigrees and Phylogenies 2: Oldrich Tomasek, Alan A. Cohen, Erola Fenollosa, Maurizio Mencuccini, Sergi Munné-Bosch and Fanie Pelletier: Biochemical and Physiological Data Collection 3: Marie J.E. Charpentier, Marie Pelé, Julien P. Renoult and Cédric Sueur: Social Data Collection and Analyses 4: Margaret E. K. Evans, Bryan A. Black, Donald A. Falk, Courtney L. Giebink and Emily L. Schultz: Growth Rings across the Tree of Life: Demographic Insights from Biogenic Time Series Data 5: Marlène Gamelon, Josh A. Firth, Mathilde Le Moullec, William K. Petry and Roberto Salguero-Gómez: Longitudinal Demographic Data Collection 6: Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio, Eric S. Menges, Geoffrey S. Cook, Johan Ehrlén and Michelle E. Afkhami: Drivers of Demography: Past Challenges and a Promise for a Changed Future Part II: Data and Research Question-Driven Methods 7: Jonas Knape and Andreas Lindén: Abundance Based Approaches 8: Owen R. Jones: Life Tables: Construction and Interpretation 9: Yngvild Vindenesa, Christie Le Coeura and Hal Caswell: Introduction to Matrix Population Models 10: Edgar J. González, Dylan Z. Childs, Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio and Roberto Salguero-Gómez: Integral Projection Models 11: David N. Koons, David T. Iles and Iain Stott: Transient Analyses of Population Dynamics Using Matrix Projection Models 12: Viktoriia Radchuk, Stephanie Kramer-Schadt, Uta Berger, Cédric Scherer, Pia Backmann and Volker Grimm: Individual-Based Models 13: Sarah Cubaynes, Simon Galas, Myriam Richaud, Ana Sanz Aguilar, Roger Pradel, Giacomo Tavecchia, Fernando Colchero, Sebastien Roques, Richard Shefferson and Carlo Giovanni Camarda: Survival Analyses 14: Marlène Gamelon, Stefan J.G. Vriend, Marcel E. Visser, Caspar A. Hallmann, Suzanne T.E. Lommen and Eelke Jongejans: Efficient use of demographic Data: Integrated Population Models Part III: Applications 15: Guillaume Péron: Spatial Demography 16: Shripad Tuljapurkar and Wenyun Zuo: Evolutionary Demography 17: Bernt-Erik Sæther and Steinar Engen: Reproductive value and analyses of population dynamics of age-structured populations 18: Jean-Michel Gaillard, Victor Ronget, Jean-François Lemaître, Christophe Bonenfant, Guillaume Péron, Pol Capdevila, M.arlène Gamelon and Roberto Salguero-Gómez: Applying Comparative Methods to Different Databases: Lessons from Demographic Analyses Across Mammal Species 19: James D. Nichols: Adaptive Management: Making Recurrent Decisions in the Face of Uncertainty 20: Anna Kuparinen: Heritability, Polymorphism and Population Dynamics: Individual-Based Eco-Evolutionary Simulations 21: Maria Paniw, Gabriele Cozzi, Stefan Sommer and Arpat Ozgul: Demographic Processes in Socially Structured Populations 22: Petra Klepac and C. Jessica E. Metcalf: Demographic Methods in Epidemiology
