Title: Modeling in natural resource management : development, interpretation, and application /
Authors: Shenk, Tanya M.; Franklin, Alan B.
Publisher: Island Press,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Ecology Statistical methods; Population biology Statistical methods.; Natural resources Management Statistical methods.; Ecology Mathematical models; Population biology Mathematical models.; Natural resources Management Mathematical models.
Contents: Foreword / Steven L. Sheriff -- Models in natural resource management: an introduction / Tanya M. Shenk and Alan B. Franklin -- Using models in the conduct of science and management of natural resources / James D. Nichols -- Statistical models: keys to understanding the natural world / Gary C. White -- Theoretical and statistical models in natural resource management and research / Marc Mangel, Øyvind Fiksen and Jarl Giske -- Statistical model selection: an alternative to null hypothesis testing / Alan B. Franklin [and others] -- Simulation models and optimal decision making in natural resource management / Michael J. Conroy and Clinton T. Moore -- Validating and evaluating models / Douglas H. Johnson -- Population viability analysis: development, interpretation, and application / Mark S. Boyce -- Modeling wildlife resource selection: can we do better? / Lyman L. McDonald and Bryan F.J. Manly -- Using models to facilitate complex decisions / William L. Kendall -- Individual-based models: tracking variability among individuals / Donald L. DeAngelis [and others] -- When modelers and field biologists interact: progress in resource science / William R. Clark and Richard A. Schmitz.