Data-driven Modelling of Structured Populations : A Practical Guide to the Integral Projection Model / by Stephen P. Ellner, Dylan Z. Childs, Mark Rees.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellner, Stephen P., Author.

Childs, Dylan Z., Author.

Rees, Mark., Author.

Series:

Lecture Notes on Mathematical Modelling in the Life Sciences, 2193-4789

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biomathematics.

Bioinformatics.

Computational biology.

Mathematical and Computational Biology.

Computer Appl. in Life Sciences.

Local Subjects:

Mathematical and Computational Biology.

Computer Appl. in Life Sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.

Summary:

This book is a “How To” guide for modeling population dynamics using Integral Projection Models (IPM) starting from observational data. It is written by a leading research team in this area and includes code in the R language (in the text and online) to carry out all computations. The intended audience are ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and mathematical biologists interested in developing data-driven models for animal and plant populations. IPMs may seem hard as they involve integrals. The aim of this book is to demystify IPMs, so they become the model of choice for populations structured by size or other continuously varying traits. The book uses real examples of increasing complexity to show how the life-cycle of the study organism naturally leads to the appropriate statistical analysis, which leads directly to the IPM itself. A wide range of model types and analyses are presented, including model construction, computational methods, and the underlying theory, with the more technical material in Boxes and Appendices. Self-contained R code which replicates all of the figures and calculations within the text is available to readers on GitHub. Stephen P. Ellner is Horace White Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University, USA; Dylan Z. Childs is Lecturer and NERC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at The University of Sheffield, UK; Mark Rees is Professor in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at The University of Sheffield, UK.

Contents:

Introduction

Simple Deterministic IPM

Basic Analysis 1: Demographic Measures and Events in the Life Cycle

Basic Analysis 2: Prospective Perturbation Analysis

Density Dependence

General Deterministic IPM

Environmental Stochasticity

Spatial Models

Evolutionary Demography

Future Directions and Advanced Topics.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-319-28893-8