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