Eleni presented her work on models for stopover and related data sets at the BTO in Thetford on the 23rd of October. The talk covered both standard and more recent stopover models applied to data on migrating and breeding birds, breeding great crested newts and common blue butterflies.
Emily Dennis gave a talk titled Recent developments for modelling butterfly abundance, which compared and described various methods for analysing UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme data. These methods include generalised additive models, generalised abundance indices and dynamic models.
Rachel McCrea gave a Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology seminar at the University of Kent on 1st October. She talked about Multistate models for ecological data and described four projects she is currently involved with in collaboration with DICE. The projects involve a number of members of SE@K, including PhD student Ming Zhou and colleagues Eleni Matechou and Diana Cole.
Welcome to Marina Jimenez – Munoz who has just started a PhD with SE@K. She is working on
Understanding Biodiversity Change using Integrated Population Models Incorporating Spatial Information
with Diana, Eleni and Takis from SE@K, as well as Stephen Baillie and Rob Robinson from the BTO.
