Animal Biodiversity and Conservation. Volum 27.1 (2004)

EURING 2003. Comitè Organitzador

The quantitative study of marked individuals in ecology, evolution and conservation biology: a foreword to the EURING 2003 Conference

Evolution of quantitative methods for the study and management of avian populations: on the importance of individual contributions

Evolutionary biology and life histories

Mark-recapture and behavioral ecology: a case study of Cliff Swallows

Effects of spring conditions on breeding propensity of Greater Snow Goose females

Assessing senescence patterns in populations of large mammals

Annual survival estimation of migratory songbirds confounded by incomplete breeding site-fidelity: study designs that may help

Testing the additive versus the compensatory hypothesis of mortality from ring recovery data using a random effects model

Individual heterogeneity and identifiability in capture-recapture models

Multi-state models: metapopulation and life history analyses

Coping with unobservable and mis-classified states in capture-recapture studies

Modelling the effects of environmental and individual variability when measuring the costs of first reproduction

Density dependence in North American ducks

Demographic estimation methods for plants with dormancy

Multi-state analysis of the impacts of avian pox on a population of Serins (Serinus serinus): the importance of estimating recapture rates

Methodological advances

Continuous time-dependent Individual covariates and the Cormack-Jolly-Seber model

Evaluation of ultrastructure and random effects band recovery models for estimating relationships between survival and harvest rates in exploited populations

Computing and software

Towards the mother-of-all-models: customised construction of the mark-recapture likelihood function

Modeling nest-survival data: a comparison of recently developed methods that can be implemented in MARK and SAS

M-SURGE: new software specifically designed for multistate capture-recapture models

DENSITY: software for analysing capture-recapture data from passive detector arrays

Population dynamics and monitoring applied to decision-making

Ecosystem management via interacting models of political and ecological processes

A Bayesian integrated population dynamics model to analyze data for protected species

Application of integrated Bayesian modeling and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods to the conservation of a harvested species

A decision model for the efficient management of a conservation fund over time

Costs of detection bias in index-ased population monitoring

Dispersal and migration

Quantifying variation in migratory strategies using ring-recoveries

How do geometric constraints influence migration patterns?

Breeding dispersal by Ross's geese in the Queen Maud Gulf metapopulation

Bayesian analysis of the Hector's Dolphin data

Spatial distribution of breeding Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca in respect to their natal sites

Comparing timing and routes of migration based on ring encounters and randomization methods

Multistate modeling of brood amalgamation in White–winged Scoters Melanitta fusca deglandi

Analysis using large-scale ringing data

Generalized estimators of avian abundance from count survey data

Using large-scale data analysis to assess life history and behavioural traits: the case of the reintroduced White stork Ciconia ciconia population in the Netherlands

Estimating population dynamics and dispersal distances of owls from nationally coordinated ringing data in Finland

Estimating the contribution of survival and recruitment to large scale population dynamics

Spatial population dynamics of small mammals: some methodological and practical issues

Abundance estimation and Conservation Biology

Hierarchial mark-recapture models: a framework for inference about demographic processes

Components of population growth rate for White-winged Scoters in Saskatchewan, Canada

Occupancy as a surrogate for abundance estimation

Population dynamics

Beyond survival estimation: mark-recapture, matrix population models, and population dynamics

Estimating components of variance in demographic parameters of Tawny Owls, Strix aluco

Population models for Greater Snow Geese: a comparison of different approaches to assess potential impacts of harvest

A Bayesian approach to combining animal abundance and demographic data

Dispersal and survival rates of adult and juvenile Red-tailed tropicbirds (Phaethon rubricauda) exposed to potential contaminants

Estimating true age-dependence in survival when only adults can be observed: an example with Black-legged Kittiwakes

Exploring mark-resighting-recovery models to study savannah tree demographics

Methods for investigating parameter redundancy