Title | Estimation and Analysis of Insect Populations [electronic resource] : Proceedings of a Conference held in Laramie, Wyoming, January 25-29, 1988 / edited by Lyman L. McDonald, Bryan F. J. Manly, Jeffrey A. Lockwood, Jesse A. Logan |
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Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York, 1989 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3664-1 |
Descript | XIV, 492p. online resource |
Section I Analysis of Stage-Frequency Data -- A Review of Methods for the Analysis of Stage-frequency Data -- Life Tables, Parasitism: Estimating Parameters in Joint Host-Parasitoid Systems -- From Cohort Data to Life Table Parameters via Stochastic Modeling -- Estimation of Stage-Specific Demographic Parameters for Zooplankton Populations: Methods Based on Stage-Classified Matrix Projection Models -- Compartmental Models in the Analysis of Populations -- Modeling Grasshopper Phenology with Diffusion Processes -- Estimation of Relative Trappabilities by Age and Development Delays of Released Blowflies -- A Stochastic Model for Insect Life History Data -- Nonparametric Estimation of Insect Stage Transition Times -- Problems Associated with Life Cycle Studies of a Soil-Inhabiting Organism -- Section II Modeling of Population Dynamics -- A Review of Methods for Key Factor Analysis -- Are Natural Enemy Populations Chaotic? -- Demographic Framework for Analysis of Insect Life Histories -- Stochastic Differential Equations as Insect Population Models -- Intensive Study and Comparison of Single Species Population Simulation Models -- Potential Use of an Engineering-Based Computer Simulation Language (SLAM) for Modeling Insect Systems -- Modeling Southern Pine Beetle (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) Population Dynamics: Methods, Results and Impending Challenges -- Application of Catastrophe Theory to Population Dynamics of Rangeland Grasshoppers -- Derivation and Analysis of Composite Models for Insect Populations -- Leslie Matrix Models for Insect Populations with Overlapping Generations -- Relationships Among Recent Models for Insect Population Dynamics with Variable Rates of Development -- Models of Development in Insect Populations -- Section III Analysis of Spatial Data -- A Significance Test for Morisitaโs Index of Dispersion and the Moments when the Population is Negative Binomial and Poisson -- Spatial Analysis of the Relationship of Grasshopper Outbreaks to Soil Classification -- Use of Multi-Dimensional Life Tables for Studying Insect Population Dynamics -- Measures of the Dispersion of a Population Based on Ranks -- A Model of Arthropod Movement within Agroecosystems -- Section IV General Sampling, Estimation Methods -- Intervention Analysis in Multivariate Time Series via the Kalman Filter -- Estimating the Size of Gypsy Moth Populations using Ratios -- Numerical Survival Rate Estimation for Capture-recapture Models using SAS PROC NLIN -- Sampling Forest Canopy Arthropods Available to Birds as Prey -- Design Based Sampling as a Technique for Estimating Arthropod Population in Cotton over Large Land Masses -- DISCRETE, a Computer Program for Fitting Discrete Frequency Distributions -- Calibration of Biased Sampling Procedures -- Arthropod Sampling Methods in Ornithology: Goals and Pitfalls