Demographic methods across the tree of life / edited by Roberto Salguero-Gómez, Marlène Gamelon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salguero-Gómez, Roberto, editor.

Gamelon, Marlène, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population research.

Demography.

Demographic surveys--Methodology.

Demographic surveys.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"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." -- Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. From lions, to lion's manes, to dandelions: how different types of demographic data and methods are selected and why

PART I. Demographic Data Collection : From Genes to Environment

Genetic data collection, pedigrees, and phylogenies / Emily G. Simmonds, Alina K. Niskanen, Henrik Jensen, and Steven Smith

Biochemical and physiological data collection / Oldřich Tomášek, Alan A. Cohen, Erola Fenollosa, Maurizio Mencuccini, Sergi Munné-Bosch, and Fanie Pelletier

Social data collection and analyses / Marie J. E. Charpentier, Marie Pelé, Julien P. Renoult, and Cédric Sueur

Growth rings across the Tree of Life : demographic insights from biogenic time series data / Margaret E. K. Evans, Bryan A. Black, Donald A. Falk, Courtney L. Giebink, and Emily L. Schultz

Longitudinal demographic data collection / Marlène Gamelon, Josh A. Firth, Mathilde Le Moullec, William K. Petry, and Roberto Salguero-Gómez Drivers of demography : past challenges and a promise for a changed future / Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio, Eric S. Menges, Geoffrey S. Cook, Johan Ehrlén, and Michelle E. Afkhami

PART II. Data- and Research Question-Driven Methods

Abundance-based approaches / Jonas Knape and Andreas Lindén

Life tables : construction and interpretation / Owen R. Jones

Introduction to matrix population models / Yngvild Vindenes, Christie Le Coeur, and Hal Caswell

Integral projection models / Edgar J. González, Dylan Z. Childs, Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio, and Roberto Salguero-Gómez

Transient analyses of population dynamics using matrix projection models / David N. Koons, David T. Iles, and Iain Stott

Individual-based models / Viktoriia Radchuk, Stephanie Kramer-Schadt, Uta Berger, Cédric Scherer, Pia Backmann, and Volker Grimm

Survival analyses Mathilde Le Moullec, William K. Petry, and Roberto Salguero-Gómez Sarah Cubaynes, Simon Galas, Myriam Richaud, Ana Sanz Aguilar, Roger Pradel, Giacomo Tavecchia, Fernando Colchero, Sebastien Roques, Richard Shefferson, and Carlo Giovanni Camarda

Efficient use of demographic data : integrated population models / Marlène Gamelon, Stefan J. G. Vriend, Marcel E. Visser, Caspar A. Hallmann, Suzanne T. E. Lommen, and Eelke Jongejans

Part III. Applications

Spatial demography / Guillaume Péron

Evolutionary Demography / Shripad Tuljapurkar and Wenyun Zuo

Reproductive value and analyses of population dynamics of age-structured populations / Bernt-Erik Sæther and Steinar Engen

Applying comparative methods to different databases : lessons from demographic analyses across mammal species / Jean-Michel Gaillard, Victor Ronget, Jean-François Lemaître, Christophe Bonenfant, Guillaume Péron, Pol Capdevila, Marlène Gamelon, and Roberto Salguero-Gómeztry, and Roberto Salguero-Gómez Adaptive management : making recurrent decisions in the face of uncertainty / James D. Nichols

Heritability, polymorphism, and population dynamics : individual-based eco-evolutionary simulations / Anna Kuparinen

Demographic processes in socially structured populations / Maria Paniw, Gabriele Cozzi, Stefan Sommer, and Arpat Ozgul

Demographic methods in epidemiology / Petra Klepac and C. Jessica E. Metcalf.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-187478-7

0-19-257549-X