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Frederic Paik Schoenberg Jamie Pompa Chien-Hsun Chang 《Environmental and Ecological Statistics》2009,16(2):251-269
This paper explores the use of, and problems that arise in, kernel smoothing and parametric estimation of the relationships
between wildfire incidence and various meteorological variables. Such relationships may be treated as components in separable
point process models for wildfire activity. The resulting models can be used for comparative purposes in order to assess the
predictive performance of the Burning Index.
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Frederic Paik SchoenbergEmail: |
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David T. Butry 《Environmental and Ecological Statistics》2009,16(2):291-319
This paper examines the effect wildfire mitigation has on broad-scale wildfire behavior. Each year, hundreds of million of
dollars are spent on fire suppression and fuels management applications, yet little is known, quantitatively, of the returns
to these programs in terms of their impact on wildfire extent and intensity. This is especially true when considering that
wildfire management influences and reacts to several, often times confounding factors, including socioeconomic characteristics,
values at risk, heterogeneous landscapes, and climate. Due to the endogenous nature of suppression effort and fuels management
intensity and placement with wildfire behavior, traditional regression models may prove inadequate. Instead, I examine the
applicability of propensity score matching (PSM) techniques in modeling wildfire. This research makes several significant
contributions including: (1) applying techniques developed in labor economics and in epidemiology to evaluate the effects
of natural resource policies on landscapes, rather than on individuals; (2) providing a better understanding of the relationship
between wildfire mitigation strategies and their influence on broad-scale wildfire patterns; (3) quantifying the returns to
suppression and fuels management on wildfire behavior.
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David T. ButryEmail: |
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Chang Xuan Mao 《Environmental and Ecological Statistics》2007,14(4):473-481
Consider the removal experiment used to estimate population sizes. Statistical methods towards testing the homogeneity of
capture probabilities of animals, including a graphical diagnostic and a formal test, are presented and illustrated by real
biological examples. Simulation is used to assess the test and compare it with the χ2 test.
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Chang Xuan MaoEmail: |
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The influence of multiple anchored fish aggregating devices (FADs) on the spatial behavior of yellowfin (Thunnus albacares) and bigeye tuna (T. obesus) was investigated by equipping all thirteen FADs surrounding the island of Oahu (HI, USA) with automated sonic receivers
(“listening stations”) and intra-peritoneally implanting individually coded acoustic transmitters in 45 yellowfin and 12 bigeye
tuna. Thus, the FAD network became a multi-element passive observatory of the residence and movement characteristics of tuna
within the array. Yellowfin tuna were detected within the FAD array for up to 150 days, while bigeye tuna were only observed
up to a maximum of 10 days after tagging. Only eight yellowfin tuna (out of 45) and one bigeye tuna (out of 12) visited FADs
other than their FAD of release. Those nine fish tended to visit nearest neighboring FADs and, in general, spent more time
at their FAD of release than at the others. Fish visiting the same FAD several times or visiting other FADs tended to stay
longer in the FAD network. A majority of tagged fish exhibited some synchronicity when departing the FADs but not all tagged
fish departed a FAD at the same time: small groups of tagged fish left together while others remained. We hypothesize that
tuna (at an individual or collective level) consider local conditions around any given FAD to be representative of the environment
on a larger scale (e.g., the entire island) and when those conditions become unfavorable the tuna move to a completely different
area. Thus, while the anchored FADs surrounding the island of Oahu might concentrate fish and make them more vulnerable to
fishing, at a meso-scale they might not entrain fish longer than if there were no (or very few) FADs in the area. At the existing
FAD density, the ‘island effect’ is more likely to be responsible for the general presence of fish around the island than
the FADs. We recommend further investigation of this hypothesis.
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Laurent Dagorn (Corresponding author)Email: |
Kim N. HollandEmail: |
David G. ItanoEmail: |
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Den Boychuk W. John Braun Reg J. Kulperger Zinovi L. Krougly David A. Stanford 《Environmental and Ecological Statistics》2009,16(2):133-151
We consider a stochastic fire growth model, with the aim of predicting the behaviour of large forest fires. Such a model can
describe not only average growth, but also the variability of the growth. Implementing such a model in a computing environment
allows one to obtain probability contour plots, burn size distributions, and distributions of time to specified events. Such
a model also allows the incorporation of a stochastic spotting mechanism.
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Reg J. KulpergerEmail: |
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Spatial pattern and persistence of historical fire boundaries in southern interior British Columbia 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Geraldine J. Jordan Marie-Josée Fortin Kenneth P. Lertzman 《Environmental and Ecological Statistics》2008,15(4):523-535
Recent ecosystem and fire management research aims to quantify, model and understand historical fire disturbances focusing
on their frequency, size and distribution. Less attention, however, has been paid to fire boundaries and their location on
the landscape. Our study presents a spatial method to quantify the location, pattern and persistence of historical fire boundaries
using tree ring fire scar data in the lower Stein watershed (British Columbia). Data from Pinus ponderosa and Pseudotsuga menziesii collected in 35 one-hectare plots over a 412-hectare study area were analyzed for the period between 1879 and 1947 using
local spatial statistics and boundary detection techniques. Results of the analysis using local spatial statistic Moran’s
I showed significant clustering of boundaries near topographic breaks. To determine and test whether fire boundaries between
plots were persistent, we used boundary detection methods and developed a spatially restricted randomization test. The results
revealed that out of 86 possible boundary links, 8 were significantly persistent (P < 0.025) while another 8 were significantly rare (P < 0.025). These spatial methods can help determine the historical spatial configuration of persistent boundaries and can
be used to maintain natural forest dynamics.
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Geraldine J. JordanEmail: |
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B. Gail Ivanoff 《Environmental and Ecological Statistics》2009,16(2):153-171
The concept of the renewal property is extended to processes indexed by a multidimensional time parameter. The definition
given includes not only partial sum processes, but also Poisson processes and many other point processes whose jump points
are not totally ordered. Various properties of renewal processes are discussed. Renewal processes are proposed as a basis
for modelling the spread of a forest fire under a prevailing wind.
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B. Gail IvanoffEmail: |
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In this paper we examine the use of data augmentation techniques for simplifying iterative simulation in the context of both
Bayesian and classical statistical inference for survival rate estimation. We examine two distinct model families common in
population ecology to illustrate our ideas, ring-recovery models and capture–recapture models, and we present the computational
advantage of this approach. We discuss also the fact that problems associated with identifiability in the classical framework
can be overcome using data augmentation, but highlight the dangers in doing so under both inferential paradigms.
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I. C. OlsenEmail: |
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Hierarchical spatial point process analysis for a plant community with high biodiversity 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Janine B. Illian Jesper Møller Rasmus P. Waagepetersen 《Environmental and Ecological Statistics》2009,16(3):389-405
A complex multivariate spatial point pattern of a plant community with high biodiversity is modelled using a hierarchical
multivariate point process model. In the model, interactions between plants with different post-fire regeneration strategies
are of key interest. We consider initially a maximum likelihood approach to inference where problems arise due to unknown
interaction radii for the plants. We next demonstrate that a Bayesian approach provides a flexible framework for incorporating
prior information concerning the interaction radii. From an ecological perspective, we are able both to confirm existing knowledge
on species’ interactions and to generate new biological questions and hypotheses on species’ interactions.
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Rasmus P. WaagepetersenEmail: |
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M. M. Manzano-Sarabia E. A. Aragón-Noriega C. A. Salinas-Zavala D. B. Lluch-Cota 《Marine Biology》2007,152(5):1021-1029
Life histories of penaeid shrimp have been classified according to the preferred habitats of postlarval, juvenile, and adult
stages, ranging from exclusively estuarine to exclusively offshore waters. Brown shrimp Farfantepenaeus californiensis migrate to an offshore habitat at the juvenile stage or even a smaller body size. This paper presents results of monthly
samplings from 24 stations over 1 year in the Agiabampo Lagoon complex, a hypersaline lagoon in northwestern Mexico. Five
species of penaeid shrimp were identified, with brown shrimp the most abundant during the year of sampling. Results suggest
that residency of brown shrimp inside this lagoon is longer than reported in previous studies. An interaction between length
and environmental variables (near-surface temperature, salinity, and rainfall) appear to be cues concerning migration.
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C. A. Salinas-ZavalaEmail: |
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Missing covariate values in linear regression models can be an important problem facing environmental researchers. Existing
missing value treatment methods such as Multiple Imputation (MI), the EM algorithm and Data Augmentation (DA) have the assumption that both observed and unobserved data come from the same distribution,
most commonly a multivariate normal or a conditionally multivariate normal family. These methods do try to incorporate the
missing data mechanism and rely on the assumption of Missing At Random (MAR). We present a DA method which does not rely on
the MAR assumption and can model missing data mechanisms and covariate structure. This method utilizes the Gibbs Sampler as
a tool for incorporating these structures and mechanisms. We apply this method to an ecological data set that relates fish
condition to environmental variables. Notice that the presented DA method detects relationships that are not detected when
other missing data methods are employed.
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Edward L. BooneEmail: |
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When animals die in traps in a mark-recapture study, straightforward likelihood inferences are possible in a class of models.
The class includes M0, Mt, and Mb as reported by White et al. (Los Alamos National Laboratory, LA-8787-NERP, pp 235, 1982), those that do not involve heterogeneity.
We include three Markov chain “persistence” models and show that they provide good fits in a trapping study of deer mice in
the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument of Southern Oregon where trapping mortality was high.
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Fred L. RamseyEmail: |
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Kimberly R. Hall 《Environmental and Ecological Statistics》2008,15(4):491-521
To plan for the habitat needs of forest songbirds of conservation concern, managers need to understand how spatial heterogeneity
in forest conditions influences habitat quality. I used difference boundary detection (wombling) and spatially constrained
clustering to delineate boundaries in various combinations of four forest vegetation variables (understory height, understory
density, percent deciduous vs. conifer understory, and percent canopy closure) in two Michigan northern hardwood forests.
My goal was to identify vegetation boundaries that corresponded with boundaries in an understory-dependent songbird’s distribution,
and with boundaries in demographic measures for this songbird that indicate habitat quality (e.g., occupancy by older vs.
yearling males, reproductive success). Both forests were actively-managed, mature stands: The first site (78 ha) was heavily
deer-browsed (HB), with many browse-resistant conifers in the understory, and the second (62 ha) was less-browsed (LB), with
deciduous-dominated understory. I compared the vegetation difference and cluster boundaries to difference boundaries based
on 6 years of distribution and demographic data for black-throated blue warblers (Dendroica caerulescens). At the HB site, warbler boundaries overlapped strongly with vegetation boundaries that included all four variables, and
clustering effectively divided the habitat into areas with different warbler occupancy and demographic characteristics. At
the LB site, warbler distribution showed high overlap with difference and cluster boundaries based on just the height and
density of understory vegetation, and cluster boundaries again effectively partitioned the study area into sites that varied
in habitat quality. Thus, geographic boundary analysis is likely to be a useful tool for identifying key vegetation variables
for management, and for delineating clusters (habitat patches) within sites that capture differences in habitat quality.
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Kimberly R. HallEmail: |
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Rudolf Izsák 《Environmental and Ecological Statistics》2008,15(2):143-156
In this paper some properties and analytic expressions regarding the Poisson lognormal distribution such as moments, maximum
likelihood function and related derivatives are discussed. The author provides a sharp approximation of the integrals related
to the Poisson lognormal probabilities and analyzes the choice of the initial values in the fitting procedure. Based on these
he describes a new procedure for carrying out the maximum likelihood fitting of the truncated Poisson lognormal distribution.
The method and results are illustrated on real data. The computer program for calculations is freely available.
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Rudolf IzsákEmail: |
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Glen D. Johnson 《Environmental and Ecological Statistics》2008,15(3):293-311
Infectious disease surveillance has become an international top priority due to the perceived risk of bioterrorism. This is
driving the improvement of real-time geo-spatial surveillance systems for monitoring disease indicators, which is expected
to have many benefits beyond detecting a bioterror event. West Nile Virus surveillance in New York State (USA) is highlighted
as a working system that uses dead American Crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) to prospectively indicate viral activity prior to human onset. A cross-disciplinary review is then presented to argue that
this system, and infectious disease surveillance in general, can be improved by complementing spatial cluster detection of
an outcome variable with predictive “risk mapping” that incorporates spatiotemporal data on the environment, climate and human
population through the flexible class of generalized linear mixed models.
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Glen D. JohnsonEmail: |
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John E. Hathaway G. Bruce Schaalje Richard O. Gilbert Brent A. Pulsipher Brett D. Matzke 《Environmental and Ecological Statistics》2008,15(3):313-327
Composite sampling can be more cost effective than simple random sampling. This paper considers how to determine the optimum
number of increments to use in composite sampling. Composite sampling terminology and theory are outlined and a method is
developed which accounts for different sources of variation in compositing and data analysis. This method is used to define
and understand the process of determining the optimum number of increments that should be used in forming a composite. The
blending variance is shown to have a smaller range of possible values than previously reported when estimating the number
of increments in a composite sample. Accounting for differing levels of the blending variance significantly affects the estimated
number of increments.
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John E. HathawayEmail: |
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Brooke E. Buckley Walter W. Piegorsch R. Webster West 《Environmental and Ecological Statistics》2009,16(1):53-62
In modern environmental risk analysis, inferences are often desired on those low dose levels at which a fixed benchmark risk
is achieved. In this paper, we study the use of confidence limits on parameters from a simple one-stage model of risk historically
popular in benchmark analysis with quantal data. Based on these confidence bounds, we present methods for deriving upper confidence
limits on extra risk and lower bounds on the benchmark dose. The methods are seen to extend automatically to the case where
simultaneous inferences are desired at multiple doses. Monte Carlo evaluations explore characteristics of the parameter estimates
and the confidence limits under this setting.
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R. Webster WestEmail: |
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Rolf Turner 《Environmental and Ecological Statistics》2009,16(2):197-223
In this paper I demonstrate some of the techniques for the analysis of spatial point patterns that have become available due
to recent developments in point process modelling software. These developments permit convenient exploratory data analysis,
model fitting, and model assessment. Efficient model fitting, in particular, makes possible the testing of statistical hypotheses
of genuine interest, even when interaction between points is present, via Monte Carlo methods. The discussion of these techniques
is conducted jointly with and in the context of some preliminary analyses of a collection of data sets which are of considerable
interest in their own right. These data sets (which were kindly provided to me by the New Brunswick Department of Natural
Resources) consist of the complete records of wildfires which occurred in New Brunswick during the years 1987 through 2003.
In treating these data sets I deal with data-cleaning problems, methods of exploratory data analysis, means of detecting interaction,
fitting of statistical models, and residual analysis and diagnostics. In addition to demonstrating modelling techniques, I
include a discussion on the nature of statistical models for point patterns. This is given with a view to providing an understanding
of why, in particular, the Strauss model fails as a model for interpoint attraction and how it has been modified to overcome
this difficulty. All actual modelling of the New Brunswick fire data is done only with the intent of illustrating techniques.
No substantive conclusions are or can be drawn at this stage. Realistic modelling of these data sets would require incorporation
of covariate information which I do not so far have available.
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Rolf TurnerEmail: |
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Matthew R. Schofield Richard J. Barker Darryl I. MacKenzie 《Environmental and Ecological Statistics》2009,16(3):369-387
Hierarchical mark-recapture models offer three advantages over classical mark-recapture models: (i) they allow expression
of complicated models in terms of simple components; (ii) they provide a convenient way of modeling missing data and latent
variables in a way that allows expression of relationships involving latent variables in the model; (iii) they provide a convenient
way of introducing parsimony into models involving many nuisance parameters. Expressing models using the complete data likelihood
we show how many of the standard mark-recapture models for open populations can be readily fitted using the software WinBUGS.
We include examples that illustrate fitting the Cormack–Jolly–Seber model, multi-state and multi-event models, models including
auxiliary data, and models including density dependence.
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Darryl I. MacKenzieEmail: |