Some examples of Applications to Ecological Issues

Bogich T., Shea K. (2008) - A state-dependent model for the optimal management of an invasive metapopulation. Ecological Applications 18, 748–761.

Dacunha-Castelle D., Duflo M. (1986) - Probability and statistics I. New York: Springer.

Gilioli G., Bodini A., Baumgaertner J., Weidmann P., Hartmann J. (2008) - A novel approach based on Information Theory to rank conservation strategies: an application to amphibian metapopulations (with discussion). Animal Conservation, 11, 453-462.

Gilioli G., Bodini A., Baumgaertner J. (2013) - Metapopulation modelling and area-wide pest management strategies evaluation. An application to Pine processionary moth. Ecological Modelling, 260, 1-10.

Govindan B.N., Kéry M., Swihart R.K. (2012) - Host selection and responses to forest fragmentation in acorn

weevils: inferences from dynamic occupancy models. Oikos, 121, 623–633.

Hanski I. (1998) - Metapopulation dynamics. Nature,396, 41–49.

Hanski I., Kuussaari M.,  Nieminen M. (1994) - Metapopulation structure and migration in the butterfly Melitaea cinxia. Ecology, 75,747–762.

Kullback S., Leibler R.A.  (1951) - On information and sufficiency. Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 22, 79–86.

Moilanen A., Smith A.T., Hanski I. (1998) - Long-term dynamics in a metapopulation of the American pika. The American  Naturalist,152, 530-542.

Nichols J.D. (2012) - Evidence, models, conservation programs and limits to management. Animal Conservation, 15, 331-333

Nicol S., Chadès I. (2011) - Beyond stochastic dynamic programming: a heuristic sampling method for optimizing conservation decisions in very large state spaces. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2, 221–228.

Possingham H.P., Andelman S.J., Noon B.R., Trombulak S., Pulliam H.R. (2001) - Making smart conservation decisions. In: Soule M.E. & Orians G.H. (Eds.), Conservation Biology: Research Priorities for the Next Decade. Pulliam Press, Washington, USA,  225–244.

ter Braak C.J.F., Hanski I., Verboom J. (1998) - The incidence function approach to modeling of metapopulation dynamics. In: Bascompte, J. & Solé, R.V.(eds.). Modeling spatiotemporal dynamics in ecology. pp 167-188. Springer, New York.

Westphal M.I., Pickett M., Getz W.M., Possingham H.P. (2003) - The use of stochastic dynamic programming in optimal landscape reconstruction for metapopulations. Ecological Applications, 13, 543-555.