Friday

Reading

Some nice theoretical ecology papers out from our group recently, looking over today:

  • Paul’s paper (Williams & Hastings, 2011) deals with some interesting work on persistence in complex models, (stochastic systems of mixture models), curious how it compares to the conclusions of (Schreiber, 2010).

  • Sebastian’s paper (Schreiber et. al. 2011) with Dan Bolnick and Burger, another example of the importance of individual heterogeneity, this time in a nice phenotype/genotype specific way by combining quantitative genetics approaches with predator dynamics.

  • Jamie’s paper: (Ashander et. al. 2011) on sea-lice with Mark Lewis.

  • Also my entry on ABC a few days ago suddenly gathered a bunch of traffic and suggested some more reading to me, Didelot et. al. 2011, thanks to Dan Lawson at Bristol for pointing this out.  Sounds like there may be a straight-forward way to derive sufficient statistics for both models to allow comparisons, though not sure whether or not we are using even model-wise sufficient statistics in the new comparative phylogenetics applications.  Perhaps worth a bit more attention, but Didelot et. al. 2011 is certainly worth a read.

Writing

Figures. Yesterday’s to-do list. References. Wishing I could use tex instead of Word (okay, oowriter).  Methods summary: bootstrap, likelihood approach.  – DONE

Arithmetic

  • Run more empirical datasets through machinery for Figures 1-3, (probably for appendix).

  • Working out the math for the case of replicates.

References

  • Williams P and Hastings A (2011). “Paradoxical Persistence Through Mixed-System Dynamics: Towards A Unified Perspective of Reversal Behaviours in Evolutionary Ecology.” Proceedings of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278. ISSN 0962-8452, https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.2074.

  • Schreiber S (2010). “Interactive Effects of Temporal Correlations, Spatial Heterogeneity And Dispersal on Population Persistence.” Proceedings of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277. ISSN 0962-8452, https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.2006.

  • Schreiber S, Bürger R and Bolnick D (2011). “The Community Effects of Phenotypic And Genetic Variation Within A Predator Population.” Ecology, 92. ISSN 0012-9658, https://dx.doi.org/10.1890/10-2071.1.

  • Ashander J, Krkošek M and Lewis M (2011). “Aquaculture-Induced Changes to Dynamics of A Migratory Host And Specialist Parasite: A Case Study of Pink Salmon And Sea Lice.” Theoretical Ecology, 5. ISSN 1874-1738, https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12080-011-0122-4.

  • Likelihood-Free Estimation of Model Evidence, Xavier Didelot, Richard G. Everitt, Adam M. Johansen, Daniel J. Lawson, (2011) Bayesian Analysis, 6 10.1214/11-BA602