The impact of the ongoing rapid climate change on natural systems is a major issue for human
societies. An important challenge for ecologists is to identify the climatic factors that drive …

In a rapidly changing world, ecology has the potential to move from empirical and
conceptual stages to application and management issues. It is now possible to make large‐scale …

Ecological systems can often be characterised by changes among a finite set of underlying
states pertaining to individuals, populations, communities or entire ecosystems through time. …

In any statistical analysis, assessing the goodness of fit of a model to the data is crucial to
avoid drawing incorrect conclusions. U‐CARE is a computer application that deals with the …

U-CARE is a computer program that deals with the first steps of the analyses of capturerecapture
data, namely the preparation of the data set and the assessment of the fit of a general …

Novel Statistical Tools for Conserving and Managing PopulationsBy gathering information
on key demographic parameters, scientists can often predict how populations will develop in …

In an analysis of capture-recapture data, the identification of a model that fits is a critical step.
For the multisite (also called multistate) models used to analyze data gathered at several …

Understanding population dynamics requires accurate estimates of demographic rates.
Integrated population models combine demographic and survey data into a single, …

Demographic data of rare and endangered species are often too sparse to estimate vital
rates and population size with sufficient precision for understanding population growth and …

Optimal goodness–of–fit procedures for multistate models are new. Drawing a parallel with
the corresponding single–state procedures, we present their singularities and show how the …