Modelling and Quantitative Methods in Fisheries

Haddon, Malcolm

ISBN 10: 1584881771 / ISBN 13: 9781584881773

Published by Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.A., 2001

About this Item

406pp., index, biblio., figures. Very light wear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 009893

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modelling and Quantitative Methods in Fisheries
• Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1584881771
• ISBN 13: 9781584881773
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science and Medicine
  • Mathematics

About this title

Synopsis

Quantitative methods and mathematical modelling are of critical importance to fishery science and management but, until now, there has been no book that offers the sharp focus, methodological detail, and practical examples needed by non-specialist fishery scientists and managers, and ecologists. Modelling and Quantitative Methods in Fisheries fills that void. To date, methodology books in fisheries science have been limited to cookbook approach to problems; simple compilations; or expositions in which either too much theory or insufficient methodological detail is given. The text is organized into three sections: an introduction to modelling in fisheries and ecology, a straight methodology section covering a range of methods, and a section focusing on specific fields in fisheries science. This book is timely as it addresses a topic of recent debate in fisheries and ecology, describing and comparing the uses of Least Squares, Maximum Likelihood, and Bayesian quantitative methods. Designed as stand-alone units, each chapter provides examples from both classic and recent literature and comes with dedicated Excel spreadsheets that permit you to delve into every detail of the analysis. All of these spreadsheets serve as active examples, which can easily be modified and customized and can be used as templates for analyzing your own data. The spreadsheets permit you to learn at your own speed and cover the simplest linear regression to the more complex non-linear modelling using maximum likelihood. Data analysis and modelling are best learned by doing and not just by reading. This book illustrates, step by step, the analyses it covers. More detailed in terms of introductory quantitative methods and modelling as applied to fisheries than any other book available, Modelling and Quantitative Methods in Fisheries gives you the advantage by supplying the full details of the analysis so that understanding the material is a matter of following the book.

Review

"The book is a good introduction to modeling for students and practitioners. The emphasis is on population models, with chapters on parameter estimation, randomization tests, resampling methods, Monte Carlo methods, Stock-recruitment, and age-structures models. One helpful feature is the use of spreadsheet examples to illustrate the methods." -Fisheries, 2002