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The Ecological Detective

The modern ecologist usually works in both the field and laboratory, uses statistics and computers, and often works with ecological concepts that are model-based, if not model-driven. How do we make the field and laboratory coherent? How do we link models and data? How do we use statistics to help experimentation? How do we integrate modeling and statistics? How do we confront multiple hypotheses with data and assign degrees of belief to different hypotheses? How do we deal with time series (in which data are linked from one measurement to the next) or put multiple sources of data into one inferential framework? These are the kinds of questions asked and answered by this book in which Hilborn and Mangel investigate ecological data much as a detective would investigate a crime scene by trying different hypotheses until a coherent picture emerges.
`This book is full of practical, intellectually sophisticated advice [and] is a signal contribution...to the field', Robert D. Holt, Professor of Systematics and Ecology, University of Kansas

Contents

<table><TR><TD> <TD>Preface: Beyond the Null Hypothesis <TD>An Ecological Scenario and the Tools of the Ecological Detective <TR><TD>2 <TD>Alternative Views of the Scientific Method and of Modeling <TR><TD>3 <TD>Probability and Probability Models: Know Your Data <TR><TD>4 <TD>Incidental Catch in Fisheries: Seabirds in the New Zealand Squid Trawl Fishery <TR><TD>5 <TD>The Confrontation: Sum of Squares <TR><TD>6 <TD>The Evolutionary Ecology of Insect Oviposition Behavior <TR><TD>7 <TD>The Confrontation: Likelihood and Maximum Likelihood <TR><TD>8 <TD>Conservation Biology of Wildebeest in the Serengeti <TR><TD>9 <TD>The Confrontation: Bayesian Goodness of Fit <TR><TD>10 <TD>Management of Hake Fisheries in Namibia Motivation <TR><TD>11 <TD>The Confrontation: Understanding How the Best Fit Is Found <TR><TD>Appendix <TD>"The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses" <TR><TD> <TD>References <TR><TD> <TD>Index

Specifications

Pm Supplier	Wiley & Sons Ltd
Pm Publisher	Princeton University Press
Pm Isbn 10	0691034974
Pm Isbn 13	9780691034973
Pm Publication Date	1997-04-07
Pm Width	127
Pm Height	20
Pm Author	Hilborn, Ray, Mangel, Marc
Pm Longness	204

Confronting Models With Data
Key Info: 67 figs, 27 tabs
Author: Hilborn, Ray, Mangel, Marc
Page Count: 315
Publication Date: 1997-04-07