A unified framework for modelling wildlife population dynamics

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-34

  Thomas, Len ^a   Buckland, Stephen T ^a   Newman, Ken B ^b   Harwood, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Auxiliary particle filter; Ecology; Grey seals; Halichoerus grypus; Metapopulation; Nonlinear stochastic matrix models; Sequential importance sampling; State space models; Wildlife conservation and management

Indexed keywords

EID: 16244378232     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2005.00369.x     Document Type: Article

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