Occupancy Estimation and Modeling: Inferring Patterns and Dynamics of Species Occurrence

Occupancy Estimation and Modeling: Inferring Patterns and Dynamics of Species Occurrence

<p><i>Occupancy Estimation and Modeling: Inferring Patterns and Dynamics of Species Occurrence, Second Edition, </i>provides a synthesis of model-based approaches for analyzing presence-absence data, allowing for imperfect detection. Beginning from the relatively simple case of estimating the proportion of area or sampling units occupied at the time of surveying, the authors describe a wide variety of extensions that have been developed since the early 2000s. This provides an improved insight about species and community ecology, including, detection heterogeneity; correlated detections; spatial autocorrelation; multiple states or classes of occupancy; changes in occupancy over time; species co-occurrence; community-level modeling, and more. </p> <p><i>Occupancy Estimation and Modeling: Inferring Patterns and Dynamics of Species Occurrence, Second Edition </i>has been greatly expanded and detail is provided regarding the estimation methods and examples of their application are given. Important study design recommendations are also covered to give a well rounded view of modeling.</p>