Case Applications of Statistical Models in Ecology & Evolution

Youhua Chen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

150 Seiten

2016
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-63484-876-3 (ISBN)

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Since the 20th century, there have been many exciting achievements in the field of ecology and evolution, many of which were formulated using statistical and mathematical functions. In particular, statistical and mathematical models are a necessity for developing some sub-disciplines and theories like population genetics and ecology, neutral theory of molecular evolution and biodiversity, and machine-learning techniques for species distribution modeling. This book serves as an elementary guide to showcase some statistical and mathematical models that have been applied and used in contemporary ecological or evolutionary research. Some models may be old-fashioned, whilst some others have been further extended or developed so as to better address special research questions presented in each chapter of the book. Technical aspects of each statistical model are presented in detail to allow readers to follow and apply their own research and practices.

Youhua Chen is interested in biodiversity conservation, biogeography, numerical ecology and computational biology. He has published over 70 papers in international journals and two monographs. He has a long-term interest of applying statistical and mathematical models to address biological and biogeographic questions. He is also interested in applying geographical information system, climate data and remote sensing data to assess the impacts of climate change, land use and human disturbance on species extinction.

Preface; Permutation-free Fishers Z-transform Method for Significance Testing of Mantels Statistic; Random Species/Population Change & Multiple-site Beta Diversity Indices: A Comparison of Contradictory Scenarios from Simulation- & Empirical BCI Tree-derived Data Sets; On the Relationship between Community-level Beta Diversity & Partitioning Variation for Space & Environment: BCI Tree Community as a Case Study; Distinguishing Niche & Neutral Processes: Issues in Variation Partitioning Statistical Methods & Further Perspectives; Estimating Ancestral Ranges in Historical Biogeography: On the Development of Alternative Range Evolution Models for Maximum Likelihood Inference; On the Relationships of Clade Age, Species Richness, & Phylogenetic Diversity of Global Mammals; Spatial Point Pattern Analysis of County Locations of Mainland China: The Relative Roles of Anthropogenic Factors, Climatic Fluctuation & Water Availability; Modeling Species-area Relationship with Measurement Uncertainty; Estimating Population Change of Species Under Climate Change Using Occupancy-abundance Relationship; Coexist: An R Package for Performing Species Coexistence Modeling & Analysis; Fitness Equivalence Promotes Species Coexistence under Fluctuating Environments with Simultaneous Coupling of Dispersal & Competition; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	13.05.2016
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	180 x 260 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-63484-876-4 / 1634848764
ISBN-13	978-1-63484-876-3 / 9781634848763
Zustand	Neuware