Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R

Alain Zuur, Elena N. Ieno, Neil Walker, Anatoly A. Saveliev, Graham M. Smith

Springer Science & Business Media, Mar 5, 2009 - Science - 574 pages

Building on the successful Analysing Ecological Data (2007) by Zuur, Ieno and Smith, the authors now provide an expanded introduction to using regression and its extensions in analysing ecological data. As with the earlier book, real data sets from postgraduate ecological studies or research projects are used throughout. The first part of the book is a largely non-mathematical introduction to linear mixed effects modelling, GLM and GAM, zero inflated models, GEE, GLMM and GAMM. The second part provides ten case studies that range from koalas to deep sea research. These chapters provide an invaluable insight into analysing complex ecological datasets, including comparisons of different approaches to the same problem. By matching ecological questions and data structure to a case study, these chapters provide an excellent starting point to analysing your own data. Data and R code from all chapters are available from www.highstat.com.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Limitations of Linear Regression Applied on Ecological Data: 11
• Things Are Not Always Linear Additive Modelling: 34
• 5: 59
• 6: 66
• 1: 101
• Violation of Independence Part I: 143
• Violation of Independence Part II: 161
• Meet the Exponential Family 193: 192
• GLM and GAM for Count Data: 209
• GLM and GAM for AbsencePresence and Proportional Data: 245
• ZeroTruncated and ZeroInflated Models for Count Data 261: 260
• Generalised Estimation Equations: 295
• 90: 317
• GLMM and GAMM: 322
• 92: 335
• Estimating Trends for Antarctic Birds in Relation: 343
• LargeScale Impacts of LandUse Change in a Scottish: 362
• 101: 376
• 8: 381
• Negative Binomial GAM and GAMM to Analyse Amphibian: 383
• Additive Mixed Modelling Applied on DeepSea Pelagic: 398
• Additive Mixed Modelling Applied on Phytoplankton Time Series: 423
• Mixed Effects Modelling Applied on American Foulbrood Affecting: 447
• ThreeWay Nested Data for Age Determination Techniques Applied: 459
• GLMM Applied on the Spatial Distribution of Koalas in: 469
• A Comparison of GLM GEE and GLMM Applied to Badger: 493
• Incorporating Temporal Correlation in Seal Abundance Data with: 503
• A Linear Regression and Additive: 531
• References: 553
• Index: 563

Bibliographic information

• Title: Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R; Statistics for Biology and Health; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
• Authors: Alain Zuur, Elena N. Ieno, Neil Walker, Anatoly A. Saveliev, Graham M. Smith
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media, 2009
• ISBN: 0387874585, 9780387874586
• Length: 574 pages
• Subjects: Mathematics / Applied; Mathematics / Probability & Statistics / Stochastic Processes; Medical / Biostatistics; Science / Earth Sciences / General; Science / Environmental Science; Science / Life Sciences / Ecology; Technology & Engineering / Environmental / General