Quantitative Methods for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Cambridge, 2006) - References pdf

... quantitative genetics. Evolutionary Ecology, 6, 152–169. Mangel, M. (1998). No-take areas for sustainability of harvested species and a conservation invariant for marine reserves. Ecology Letters, ... J., Restrepo, V. R. and Kirkwood, G. P. (1999). Formulating quantitative methods to evaluate fishery-management systems: what fishery processes should be modelled and what...

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... undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs, and even those beyond) who wants to develop the intuition and skills required for reading the literature in theoretical and mathematical biology and for doing work in ... Clark and I talk about this a bit in our book (Clark and Mangel 2000). Two possible forms for the gain function are G(t) ¼at/(b þt) and G(t) ¼at 2 /(b þt 2...

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... ¼lx 0 e lt and d 2 x/dt 2 ¼l 2 x 0 e lt . When we substitute these forms for x(t) and its two derivatives back into Eq. (2.38), note that both x 0 and e lt will cancel 52 Topics from ordinary and partial ... x K 2  (2:34) and equations that could describe a mutualistic interaction (for example between ants and butterflies, see Pierce and Nash (1999) or Pierce et al. (2002)...

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... l ¼Np (for which we set t ¼1 implicitly). Random search with depletion In many situations in ecology and evolutionary biology, we deal with random search for items that are then removed and not ... a chi-square random variable. If we let  n 2 denote a chi-square random v ariable with n degrees of freedom and X denote a N(0, 1) random variable, then the ratio T ¼ X = n 2 is The...

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... sketch a graph with l on the x-axis and y ¼l or y ¼Àre Àl on the y-axis and look for their intersections and note that if  ¼0 then l ¼Àr). 148 The evolutionary ecology of parasitoids hosts at ... parasitoid reproductive success include mor- tality risk while searching and foraging, egg complement, and time available for searching for oviposition sites and ovipositing....

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... interest and oppor- tunity for modeling (Lipp et al. 2002, Hastings 1997, 2001, Hastings and McKinnon 1998, Hastings and D’Allesandro 2000, Hastings et al. 2002) and opportunities exist for new ... bridges ecology, immunology, and epidemiology (Antia and Lipschitz 1997, Hellriegel 2001, Ahmed et al. 2002, Gardner and Thomas 2002, Rolff and Siva-Jothy 2002, 2003, Wegner et...

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... log-likelihood the largest. Denote this value by K Ã and the associated total log-likelihood by L Ã T ; it is the best point estimate. Make a plot of L T (x-axis) vs K (y-axis) and show K Ã and ... oscillations of effort and stock abundance. Now, you might expect that there are differences in the rate at which effort is added and at which effort is reduced. I agree with you and th...

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... "; t Þ (7:82) (c) Now Taylor expand Eqs. (7.81) and (7.82) to first order in Dt and to second order in " and compare those results with the backward and forward equations that we have derived. ... population genetics and conservation biology (see Connections). An alternative to Brownian motion: the Poisson increment 281 upon your understanding of the biology and on h...

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... vitality and the biodemography of survival 313 breadth of a foraging organism. In classical island biogeography, one measures per capita birth and death rates and carrying capacity of an island and ... (Halley and Iwasa 1998, Diserud and Engen 2000, Hakoyama and Iwasa 2000, Lande et al. 2003) takes the form dX ¼ bðX Þdt þ ffiffiffiffiffi a e p X dW e þ ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi a d X p dW d ,wherea e an...

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... researcher and the availability of data. For example, intraday time series can be extremely noisy and “a typical off-floor trader 26 Applied Quantitative Methods for Trading and Investment for good ... observations), reserved for out-of-sample forecasting and evaluation, identical to the out-of-sample period for the benchmark models. To start, traditional linear cross-co...

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