Estimation of Change From Survey Data

Results And Summary Of A Workshop Held 11-12 March 2003 At The Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel MD

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1. General Introduction
2. Motivation For Workshop
3. Workshop Summary
4. General Comments Regarding Estimation Of Population Change From Survey Data (Sauer)
   1. Monitoring Goals
   2. State Variables To Be Monitored
   3. Detectability And Sample Frame Issues
5. Summary Of Existing Efforts
   1. Earlier Workshop Results
   2. Presentation/Discussion Of Suggested Methods For Estimation Of Change From Olympic NP Monitoring Programs
   3. Discussion
6. Introduction To The Datasets
   1. Sea Urchin Data
      1. Data
      2. Documentation (Complete Manual) (Geissler Summary)
   2. Vegetation Data
      1. Data
      2. Complete Manual)
   3. Bird Data
      1. Counts And Distance Data
      2. Documentation
7. Analysis Of Abundance (Count Survey) Data
   1. Profile Summary Analysis (Shelly, Cardoso, Courbois, and Geissler)
      1. Commentary
      2. Presentation
      3. Profile Summary Analysis Of Urchin Data
      4. Profile Summary Analysis Of Vegetation (Blackbrush) Data  
      5. Alternative Profile Summary (Within-Subject Functions) Approach (Geissler)
   2. Approaches: Analysis Of Variance And Split Plot Designs (Geissler)
      1. Commentary
      2. Presentation
      3. Analysis Of Urchin Data
   3. ANOVA Approaches: Repeated Measures (Yee and Hatfield)
      1. Commentary
      2. Presentation
      3. Text Presentation: Repeated Measures
      4. Analysis
   4. Time Series Analyses (Otto)
      1. Commentary
      2. Presentation
   5. Generalized Additive Models (Sauer)
      1. Commentary
      2. Presentation
      3. Sea Urchin
      4. Vegetation
      5. Running GAMS Analyses Using Program R
   6. Hierarchical Models (Sauer, Link, and Royle)
      1. Commentary
      2. Presentation
      3. Bird Example (Powerpoint)
      4. Running Hierarchical Model Analyses
8. Power Analysis: Using Existing Information For Planning Future Surveys.
   1. Commentary
   2. General Issues
   3. Alaska Monitoring Results (Irvine)
   4. Power Analysis Based On Profile Summary  Method
   5. Geissler Analysis Of Power For Red Urchin Data
9. Analysis Of Site Occupancy Data (Nichols, Bailey)
   1. Commentary
   2. Method Description
   3. Analysis Example
10. Analysis Of Species Richness Data (Doherty, Hines, Sauer)
    1. Commentary
    2. Method Description
    3. Analysis Example
11. Literature Cited
    1. Bibliography
    2. NPS Monitoring Web Site
    3. Patuxent Software Site