Statistical Approaches for Hidden Variables in Ecology. Nathalie Peyrard

9.2. Models and methods 9.3. Case study: predicting the abundance of 15 common tree species in the forests of Central Africa 9.4. Discussion 9.5. References

      14  10 Structural Equation Models for the Study of Ecosystems and Socio-Ecosystems 10.1. Introduction 10.2. Structural equation model 10.3. Case study: biodiversity in managed forests 10.4. Discussion 10.5. Acknowledgments 10.6. References

      15  List of Authors

      16  Index

      17  End User License Agreement

       List of Tables

      1 IntroductionTable I.1. Chapters and contents

      2 Chapter 1Table 1.1. Evolution of model selection criteria (AIC and ICL) as a function of ...

      3 Chapter 3Table 3.1. Prevalence of hybrids: observed and estimated using the Viterbi algor...

      4 Chapter 4Table 4.1. Parameters estimated by maximum likelihood

      5 Chapter 5Table 5.1. Notation of variables in the MHMM-DFTable 5.2. Interpretation of parameters of the MHMM-DF based on binomial distrib...Table 5.3. Boundaries of the five abundance classes for the seven weed species i...Table 5.4. Probabilities of survival, colonization and germination from a dorman...Table 5.5. BIC selection values for models with and without taking account of cr...Table 5.6. Probabilities of survival and emergence from a dormant state in the M...

      6 Chapter 8Table 8.1. Glossary of species codes, scientific names and common names for spec...

      7 Chapter 9Table 9.1. Spearman correlations between observed and predicted abundances obtai...

      8 Chapter 10Table 10.1. Variables used in the case studyTable 10.2. Latent variables based on prior knowledge

      List of Illustrations

      1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1. The map at the top shows the tracking data for a male Cape dolphin (...Figure 1.2. Figure extracted from Figure 4 in Lopez et al. (2015). The black lin...Figure 1.3. Graphical model. For a color version of this figure, see www.iste.co...Figure 1.4. Illustration of the quantities present in equations [1.5]–[1.8]. Pt ...Figure 1.5. Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra) Photo: Sophie Bertrand. For a color v...Figure 1.6. Area of study (shown in red on the map) and three trajectories obtai...Figure 1.7. Result of Kalman smoothing on part of the booby trajectories. Smooth...Figure 1.8. Representation of states along trajectories estimated using two diff...Figure 1.9. Distribution of our chosen metrics for the states estimated using ou...Figure 1.10. Contingencies of estimated states for our two models. For a color v...Figure 1.11. Evolution of the probability of being in state 1 or state 2 over ti...Figure 1.12. Evolution of estimated transition probabilities as a function of di...Figure 1.13. Study zone (red dot on the map) and three trajectories of three dif...

      2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1. Illustration of van Noordwijk and de Jong’s (1986) “Y” model. Exampl...Figure 2.2. Directed acyclic graph of the model. The squares represent observabl...Figure 2.3. A posteriori distributions of parameters in the latent model (logari...Figure 2.4. Comparison of observed and simulated ring width from 1989 to 2015 an...Figure 2.5. Boxplot of resource (net primary productivity, in gC.m−2.year−1) sim...Figure 2.6. Illustration of the developed Bayesian model, with process and data ...Figure 2.7. Correlation between sinks and probabilities. a) Correlation density ...

      3 Chapter 3Figure 3.1. Schematic illustration of a hidden Markov modelFigure 3.2. Two-state capture–recapture model expressed in HMM formFigure 3.3. Multi-state capture–recapture model expressed in HMM formFigure 3.4. Diagram of a dynamic occupancy model expressed as an HMMFigure 3.5. Identification of local minima in the

deviance of an HMM. Numerica...Figure 3.6. Visualization of heterogeneity: map of the heterogeneity class to wh...

      4 Chapter 4Figure 4.1. Expectation of the total number of cases associated with the posteri...Figure 4.2. Joint posterior distributions of couples (α, κ), (t0, α) and (t0, κ)...Figure 4.3. Map of wolf detections in southeastern France (black dots) and the a...Figure 4.4. Estimated response curves. Estimated relations between individual de...Figure 4.5. Predicted occupation probability map for 2016, obtained using the mo...Figure 4.6. Proportion of plants susceptible to WMV across the area of study. Fo...Figure 4.7. Proportions of classic and invasive variants in a landscape: data an...

      5 Chapter 5Figure 5.1. Illustration of dependency relationships in an MHMM-DF. Case of two ...Figure 5.2. Layout of the 10 fields and 90 patches in the experimental farm at E...

      6 Chapter 6Figure 6.1. The Chilean network: 1,362 trophic interactions observed in the inte...Figure 6.2. Adjacency matrix and corresponding representation of the non-directe...Figure 6.3. Incidence matrix and corresponding representation of the bipartite b...Figure 6.4. Simulation of a modular network for the parameters shown on the left...Figure 6.5. Simulation of a food web for the parameters shown on the left. A rea...Figure 6.6. Simulation of a nested bipartite network for the parameters shown on...Figure 6.7. Simulation of a bipartite network with a modular and nested structur...Figure 6.8. Schematic representation (based on Picard et al. 2009) of the estima...Figure 6.9. Classic representation obtained using the R bipartite package. Diffe...

      7 Chapter 7Figure 7.1. The three factors that determine the actual distribution of a specie...Figure 7.2. Localization and names of the 18 gradients of ORCHAMP. For a color v...Figure 7.3. Effective sample size (ESS, top panels) and potential scale reductio...Figure 7.4. Distribution of TSS and RMSE score across species for in-sample pred...Figure 7.5. Posterior support values for species regression coefficients. Red if...Figure 7.6. The residual correlation matrix. Only significant values (i.e.