Required Readings:
Wakeley 1982:49-61; Begon et al. 1996:135-172; Bookhout
1994:370-409, 425-438; Cushing 1981:21-48,
142-171.
1. General comments
2. Terminology
3. Life tables
4. Survivorship curves
- General survivorship curves
5. Catch curves
- Application
- Theory
- Assumptions
6. Modern band-recovery analysis
- Definitions related to hunter-shot banding data
Analyzing band-recovery data (overview)
- See lab notes
What is the difference between physiological and ecological mortality?
How useful are age- and sex-specific mortality rates?
Know how to calculate mortality and survival rates.
What are the short comings of a life table analysis?
Know what each column stands for in a life table and how to calculate each column from the others.
What are the assumptions in using a life table analysis?
What are the common patterns of survivorship in birds, mammals and fishes?
What problems are associated with using banding data for mortality analysis?
How do you determine whether life table data are a sample of the dying or living?
What is the difference between deterministic and stochastic mortality models? What are their advantages and disadvantages?
What is the difference between reporting rates and recovery rates? Which is most important to a biologist?
Important
General Reviews:
Dublin, L. I., and A. J. Lotka. 1935. Length of life. A study of the life table. New York.
Farner, D. S. 1955. Birdbanding in the study of population dynamics. pp. 397-449 in A. Wolfson (ed.). Recent studies in avian biology. Univ. Ill. Press, Urbana.
Hickey, J. J. 1952. Survival studies of banded birds. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv. Spec. Scient. Rep., Wildlife No. 15:II + 177 pp.
Hill, J. A. 1936. United States life tables. U.S. Bureau of Census. VI + 57 pp.
Lack, D. 1954. The natural regulation of animal numbers (chapters 8 and 9). London.
Pearl, R. 1941. An introduction to medical biometry and statistics. 3rd ed. Philadelphia.
Trenerry, C. F. 1926. The origin and early history of insurance, including the contract of bottomry. London.
Some Studies on Mammals:
Eberhardt, L. 1960. Estimation of vital characteristics of Michigan deer herds. Mich. Dept. Cons. Game Div. Rep. 2282:192 pp.
Green, R. G., and C. A. Evans. 1940. Studies on a population cycle on the Lake Alexander area. J. Wildl. Manage. 4:220-238, 347-358.
Leslie, P. H., and R. M. Ranson. 1940. The mortality, fertility, and rate of natural increase of the vole (Microtus agrestic) as observed in the laboratory. J. Anim. Ecology 9:27-52.
Lord, R. D., Jr. 1958. Mortality rates of cottontail rabbits. J. Wildl. Manage. 25:33-40.
Murie, A. 1944. The wolves of Mount McKinley. Fauna of the U.S. Nat. Parks Series No. 5:XX + 238pp.
Pearl, R. and J. R. Miner. 1935. Experimental studies on the duration of life. XIV. The comparative mortality of certain lower organisms. Quart. Rev. Bio. 10:60-79.
Southern, H. N. 1940. The ecology and population dynamics of the wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). Ann. Appl. Biol. 27:509-526.
Tyndale-Biscoe, C. H. and R. M. Williams. 1955. A study of natural mortality in a wild population of the rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (L.). N. Zealand Jour. Sci. and Tech. B 36:561-580.
Some
Studies on Birds:
Austin, O. L. 1942. The life span of the common tern. Bird Banding 13:159-176.
Austin, O. L., Jr. 1951. The mourning dove on Cape Cod. Bird Banding 22:149-174.
Bellrose, F. C., and E. B. Chase. 1950. Population losses in the mallard, black duck and blue-winged teal. Ill. Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull. 57:56-74.
Farner, D. S. 1945. Age groups and longevity in the American robin. Wilson Bull. 57:56-74.
Hickey, J. J. 1952. Survival studies of banded birds. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv. Spec. Scient. Rep., Wildlife No. 15:II + 177pp.
Lack, D. 1943. The life of the robin. London.
_____. 1943a. The age of some British birds. Brit. Birds 36:193-197, 214-221.
_____. 1946. Do juvenile birds survive less well than adults?
Leopold, A., T. M. Sperry, W. S. Feeney, and J. S. Coterhusen. 1943. Population turnover on a Wisconsin pheasant refuge. J. Wildl. Manage. 7:383-394.
Nice, M. M. 1937. Studies on the life history of the song sparrow. Trans. Linn. Soc. N. Y. 4:VI + 247pp.
Paynter, R. A. 1947. The fate of Kent Island herring gulls. Bird Banding 18:156-170.
Fish
and Aquatic Mammals:
Barnaby, J. T. 1944. Fluctuations in abundance of red salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka (Walbaum) of the Karluk River, Alaska. U.S. Fish and Wildl. Serv., Fishery Bull. 50(39):235-295.
Eschmeyer, R. W. 1939. Analysis of the complete fish population from Howe Lake, Crawford County, Michigan. Papers Mich. Acad. Sci., Arts, Lett., 24(II):117-137.
Jensen, A. J. C. 1939. On the laws of decreases in fish stocks. Cons. Per. Intern. Explor. Mer., Rapp. Proc.-Verb. 110(8):85-96.
Laurie, A. H. 1937. The age of female blue whales and the effect of whaling on the stock. Discov. Rep. 15:223-284.
Raitt, D. S. 1939. The rate of mortality of the haddock of the North Sea stock. cons. Per. Intern. Explor. Mer., Rapp. Proc.-Verb. 110(6):65-79.
Ricker, W. E. 1945. Natural mortality among Indiana bluegill sunfish. Ecol. 26:111-121.
_____. 1949. Mortality rates in some little-exploited populations of freshwater fishes. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 77:114-128.
_____. 1958. Handbook of computations for biological statics of fish populations. Fisheries Res. Bd. Canada Bull. No. 119:300pp.
Russell, E. S. 1942. The overfishing problem. Cambridge.
Wheeler, J. F. G. 1934. On the stock of whales at South Georgia. Discov. Rep. 9:351-372.
Invertebrates:
Corbat, P. S. 1952. An adult population study of Pyrrhosoma nymphula (Sulzer): (Odonata:Coenagrionidae). J. Anim. Ecol. 21:206-222.
Deevey, G. B., and E. S. Deevey. 1945. A life table for the black widow. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci. 36:115-134.
Dowdeswell, W. H., R. A. Fisher, and E. B. Ford. 1949. The qualitative study of populations in the Lepidoptera. 2. Maniola jurtina L. Heredity 3:67-84.
Edmundson, W. T. 1945. Ecological studies of sessile Rotatoria, Part II. Dynamics of populations and social structures. Ecol. Monogr. 15:141-172.
Jackson, C. H. N. 1939. The analysis of an animal population. J. Anim. Ecol. 8:238-246.
Moore, H. B. 1934. The biology of Balanus balanoides I. Growth rate and its relation to size, season, and tidal level. J. Mar. Biol. Assn., n.s. 19:851-868.
Pearl, R., J. R. Miner, and S. L. Parker. 1927. Experimental studies on the duration of life. XI. Density of population and life duration in Drosophila. Amer. Nat. 61:289-318.
Pearl, R., T. Park, and J. R. Miner. 1941. Experimental studies on the duration of life. XVI. Life tables for the flour beetle Tribolium confusum Duval. Amer. Nat. 75:5-19.
Analyzing
Banding Recovery Data:
Brownie, C., D. R. Anderson, K. P. Burnham, and D. S. Robson. 1985. Statistical inference from band recovery data -- a handbook. U. S. Dept. Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publ. No. 156. Wash., D.C. 305pp.
Seber, G. A. F. 1973. The estimation of animal abundance and related parameters. Griffin, London. 506pp.
Anderson, D. R., and K. P. Burnham. 1980. Effect of delayed reporting of band recoveries on survival estimates. J. Field Ornithol. 51(3):244-247.
Anderson, D. R., A. P. Wywialowski, and K. P. Burnham. 1981. Tests of the assumptions underlying life table methods for estimating parameters from cohort data. Ecology 62(4):1121-1124.
Anderson, D. R., K. P. Burnham, and G. C. White. 1985. Problems in estimating age-specific survival rates from recovery data of birds ringed as young. J. Anim. Ecol. 54:89-98.
Burnham, K. P., and D. R. Anderson. 1979. The composite dynamic method as evidence for age-specific waterfowl mortality. J. Wildl. Manage. 43(2):356-366.
Conroy, M. J., and B. K. Williams. 1984. A general methodology for maximum likelihood inference from band-recovery data. Biometrics 40(3):739-748.
Mardekian, S. Z., and L. McDonald. 1981. Simultaneous analysis of band-recovery and live-capture data. J. Wildl. Manage. 45(2):484-488.
Nelson, L. J., D. R. Anderson, and K. P. Burnham. 1980. The effect of band loss on estimates of annual survival. J. Field Ornithol. 51(1):30-38.
Nichols, J. D., S. L. Stokes, J. E. Hines, and M. J. Conroy. 1982. Additional comments on the assumptions of homogeneous survival rates in modern bird banding estimation models. J. Wildl. Manage. 46(4):953-962.
Pollock, K. H., and D. G. Raveling. 1982. Assumptions of modern band-recovery models, with emphasis on heterogeneous survival rates. J. Wildl. Manage. 46(1):88-98.
White, G. C. 1983. Numerical estimation of survival rates from band-recovery and biotelemetry data. J. Wildl. Manage. 47(3):716-728.
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