Textbooks and references

Textbooks

Conroy, M.J. and J.P. Carroll. 2009. Quantitative conservation of vertebrates. Wiley.

Kéry,M. and M. Schaub. 2012. Bayesian population analysis using WinBUGS.

• Webpage for book- contains all example code!

Online References

• R documentation and manuals

• MARK online book

• RMark chapter in MARK book

• Webpage for Kery and Schaub 2012- contains all example code!

  • Tips for installing R and JAGS on Apple Mac OS (site maintained by Mike Meredith, contact him for questions)

Suggested print reference

Courses

Jim Peterson's course at Oregon State on R 

Other references

Bolker,B. M. 2008. Ecological models and data in R. Princeton Univ. Press.

Cooch, E.G. and G.C. White. Program MARK: a gentle introduction

Crawley,M.J. 2007. The R book.  Wiley. 

Fisk, I.J. and R. B. Chandler. unmarked : An R package for fitting hierarchical models of wildlife occurrence and abundance. J. Statistical Software 43: 1-23.

Kéry,M. 2010. Introduction to WinBUGS for ecologists.  Academic

Link,W.A. and R.J. Barker

Royle, J.A. and R. M. Dorazio

Royle, J. A., D. K. Dawson, and S. Bates (2004) Modeling abundance effects in distance sampling. Ecology 85, pp. 1591-1597.

Williams, B.K, J.D. Nichols, and M.J. Conroy. 2002. Analysis and management of animal populations. Elsevier.