Centre for Research into Ecological & Environmental Modelling (CREEM): Recent submissions

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    • Bayesian modelling of integrated data and its application to seabird populations 

      Reynolds, Toby J. (University of St Andrews, 2010-11-30) - Thesis
      Integrated data analyses are becoming increasingly popular in studies of wild animal populations where two or more separate sources of data contain information about common parameters. Here we develop an integrated population ...

    • Distance software: design and analysis of distance sampling surveys for estimating population size 

      Thomas, Len; Buckland, Stephen Terrence; Rexstad, Eric; Laake, J L; Strindberg, S; Hedley, S L; Bishop, J R B; Marques, Tiago A. (2010) - Journal article
      1. Distance sampling is a widely used technique for estimating the size or density of biological populations. Many distance sampling designs and most analyses use the software Distance. 2. We briefly review distance sampling ...

    • Comparison of aerial survey methods for estimating abundance of common scoters 

      Rexstad, Eric; Buckland, Stephen T. (CREEM, University of St Andrews, 2009) - Report
      During the month of March, four survey methods were applied to the SPA at Camarthen Bay. WWT staff carried out visual aerial surveys using distance sampling methodology (Camphuysen et al. 2004). Visual shore-based counts ...

    • The importance of analysis method for breeding bird survey population trend estimates 

      Thomas, Len; Martin, Kathy (1996) - Journal article
      Population trends from the Breeding Bird Survey are widely used to focus conservation efforts on species thought to be in decline and to test preliminary hypotheses regarding the causes of these declines. A number of ...

    • Retrospective power analysis 

      Thomas, Len (1997) - Journal article
      Many papers have appeared in the recent biological literature encouraging us to incorporate statistical power analysis into our hypothesis testing protocol (Peterman 1990; Fairweather 1991; Muller & Benignus 1992; Taylor ...