17 Population Modeling

17.0.1 Occupancy models in R with unmarked: James Paterson

Intro to occupancy models https://jamesepaterson.github.io/jamespatersonblog/2020-09-01_occupancyintroduction.html

Part 2: Comparing Occ. Models https://jamesepaterson.weebly.com/blog/occupancy-models-in-r-part-2-model-comparisons

Dynamic occupancy modeling: https://jamesepaterson.github.io/jamespatersonblog/2021-01-01_dynamicoccupancy.html

See here for other mark recapture models (e.g., JS, CJS): https://jamesepaterson.weebly.com/blog

17.1 Course outline

• Population modeling
  • Background on population modeling, drawing from:
    • Primer of Ecology using R (https://hankstevens.github.io/Primer-of-Ecology/expo.html)
    • Modeling Population Growth module from UNL (https://dshizuka.github.io/RCourse/09.2.PopGrowth.html)
  • Density independent growth
  • Density-independent demography
  • Density dependent growth
  • Populations in space
  • Use simple analyses in Wenger et al. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/ece3.9339) to demonstrate relating poulations to environmental covariates