[R-sig-eco] Stable Isotope Mixing Models using SIAR MixSIAr and SIBER - STATS COURSE

2016-10-19 Thread Oliver Hooker
Stable Isotope Mixing Models using SIAR, SIBER and MixSIAR (SIMM03) Delivered by Dr. Andrew Parnell and Dr. Andrew Jackson http://prstatistics.com/course/stable-isotope-mixing-models-using-siar-siber-and-mixsiar-simm/ This 4day course will run from 28th -3rd March 2017 at Millport field centre

[R-sig-eco] Network Analysis for ecologists - STATS COURSE

2016-10-19 Thread Oliver Hooker
Network analysis for ecologists using R (NTWE01) Delivered by Dr. Marco Scotti http://prstatistics.com/course/network-analysis-for-ecologists-using-r-ntwa/ This 5 day course will run from 6th – 10th March 2017 at Millport field centre, Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland (please note that although the

[R-sig-eco] Package to analyse population time series (trend analysis)

2016-10-19 Thread Manuel Spínola
Dear list members, What is the appropriate package to analyze population time series (trend analysis) when you have one count per year. Best, Manuel -- *Manuel Spínola, Ph.D.* Instituto Internacional en Conservación y Manejo de Vida Silvestre Universidad Nacional Apartado 1350-3000 Heredia COS

Re: [R-sig-eco] Package to analyse population time series (trend analysis)

2016-10-19 Thread Peter Solymos
Manuel, There are few ecology focused packages besides ARIMA() and the forecast package, for example: - popbio (based mostly on the Matrix Population Models by Caswell (2001) and Quantitative Conservation Biology by Morris and Doak (2002). - PVAClone, that uses JAGS and is based on Nadeem, K., L

Re: [R-sig-eco] Package to analyse population time series (trend analysis)

2016-10-19 Thread Philippi, Tom
Manuel-- The proper package depends entirely on what your data are: how many sites you collect counts for, whether those sites are a probability sample over an area or the only locations you are making inferences about (e.g., census counts), whether those counts have Poisson error, overdispersion (

Re: [R-sig-eco] Package to analyse population time series (trend analysis)

2016-10-19 Thread Manuel Spínola
Thank you very much to both. I analyzing counts of flying Ara macaw over a bridge. I could have the data for 2 more sites, but essentially is one site. There are monthly counts, but I am planning to use the maximum count for each year. These are not census data, only counts with imperfect detec