Advanced Biometry
Biology 710
Supplemental Reading List
February 8 - 10 Power Analysis
Kupper, L.L. and K.B. Hafner. 1989. How appropriate are popular sample size formulas? American Statistician 43: 101-105.
Field, S.A., A.J. Tyre, N. Jonzen, J.R. Rhodes, and H.P. Possingham. 2004. Minimizing the cost of environmental management decisions by optimizing statistical thresholds. Ecology Letters 7: 669-675.
February 15 - 17 Generalized Linear Models
Vincent, P.J. and J.M. Haworth. 1983. Poisson regression models of species abundance. Journal of Biogeography 10: 153-160.
Connor, E.F., E. Hosfield, D. Meeter, and X. Nui. 1997. Tests for aggregation and size-based sample-unit selection when sample units vary in size. Ecology 78: 1238-1249.
February 22 - 24 Log-Linear Models and Logistic Regression
Augustin, N.H., M.A. Mugglestone, and S.T. Buckland. 1996. An autologistic model for the spatial distribution of wildlife. Journal of Applied Ecology 33: 339-347.
Cross, P.C. and S. R. Beissinger 2001. Using logistic regression to analyze the sensitivity of PVA models: a comparison of methods based on African wild dog models. Conservation Biology 15: 1335-1346.
Hahn, D.C. and J.S. Hatfield. 1995. Parasitism at the landscape scale: Cowbirds prefer forests. Conservation Biology 9: 1415-1424.
March 1 - 3 Mark-recapture-release Methods
Nichols, J.D. 1992. Capture-recapture models. Bioscience 42: 94-102.
Lrebreton, J.D., J.E. Hines, R. Pradel, J.D. Nichols, and J.A. Spendelow. 2003. Estimation by capture-recapture of recruitment and dispersal over several sites. Oikos 101: 253-264.
MacKenzie, D.I., J.D. Nichols, G.B. Lachman, S. Droege, J.A. Boyle, and C.A. Langtimm. 2002. Estimating site occupancy rates when detection probabilities are less than one. Ecology 83: 2248-2255.
March 8 - 10 Resampling Statistics
Crowley, P.H. 1992. Resampling methods for computer-intensive data analysis in ecology and evolution. Annual review of Ecology and Systematics 23: 405-447.
March 15 - 17 Spatial Statistics
Brodie, C. G. Houle and M. Fortin. 1995. Development of a Populus balsamifera clone in subarctic Quebec reconstructed from spatial analysis. Journal of Ecology 83: 309-320.
Koenig, W.D. 1999. Spatial autocorrelation of ecological phenomena. TREE 14: 22-26.
March 29 - 31 Time Series Analysis
Connor, E.F. 1986. Time series analysis of the fossil record. p. 119-147, In, D.M. Raup and D. Jablonski (eds). Pattern and Process in the History of Life. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Becerra-Muñoz, S., H.R. Buelna-Obsen, and J.M. Catalán-Romero. 2003. Spatial patterns of ARIMA modeled rates of change of atherinids (Chirostoma spp.) and goodeid Chapalichthys encaustus from Lake Chapala, México. Ecological Modelling 165: 237-250.
April 5 - 7 Maximum Likelihood and Phylogenetic Trees
Foster, P.G. 2001. The idiot's guide to the Zen of likelihood in a nutshell in seven days for dummies, unleashed.
Myung, In Jae. 2001 Maximum likelihood estimation.
April 19 - 21 Ordination and PCA
Galen, C. 1989. Measuring pollinator-mediated selection on morphometric floral traits: Bumblebees and the alpine sky pilot, Polemonium viscosum. Evolution 43: 882-890.
April 26 - 28 Meta Analysis
Vander Werf, E. 1992. Lack's clutch size hypothesis: an examination of the evidence using meta-analysis. Evolution 73: 1699-1705.
Bigger, D.S. and M.A. Marvier. 1998. How different would a world without herbivory be?: A search for generality in ecology. Integrative Biology p. 60-67.
May 10 - 12 MANOVA and Discriminant Analysis
Brandt, Y. and J.R. Allan. 2004. Persistence of individually distinctive display patterns in fatigued side-blotched lizards (Uta stansburiana) Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 55: 257-265.
Blumstein, D.T. and O. Munos. 2005. Individual, age, and sex-specific information is contained in yellow-bellied marmot alarm calls. Animal Behavior 69: 353-361.
May 17 - 19 Bayesian Estimation
Bullard, F. 2001. A brief introduction to Bayesian Statistics.
Suzuki, Y.G.V. Gazko, and M. Nei. 2002. Overcredibility of molecular phylogenies obtained by Bayesian phylogenetics. PNAS 99: 16138-16143.
Ellison, A. 1996. An introduction to Bayesian inference for ecological research and environmental decision-making. Ecological Application 6: 1036-1046.
Dennis, B. 1996. Discussion: Should ecologists become Bayesians? Ecological Application 6: 1095-1103.