Yesterday I asked my beloved Twitter nerds to recommend to me their favourite quantitative texts in Ecology:
my postdoc super tells me I can BUY BOOKS! ๐๐๐๐ quick sweet friends, what are your fun statistical ecology book recommendations?
โ Andrew MacDonald (@polesasunder) December 2, 2016
As a way of saying โThank you!โ I thought that I would put all the books in a list for anyone who is curious.
Stats texts
- Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data, by Noel Cressie, Christopher K. Wikle, Wiley-Blackwell (19 avril 2011)
- Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan by Richard McElreath โ This one was a HUGE favourite recommended by multiple people. Going straight to the top of my list!
- Applied Hierarchical Modeling in Ecology: Analysis of distribution, abundance and species richness in R and BUGS, 1st Edition- by Kery & Royle, Academic Press on the strength of recs from two fine quantitative folks, Auriel Fournier and Petr Keil
- Quantitative Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: Integrating models with data (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution) 1st Edition by Otso Ovaskainen, Henrik Johan de Knegt, Maria del Mar Delgado
- Bayesian Models - A Statistical Primer for Ecologists (Anglais) Reliรฉ โ 25 aoรปt 2015 - de N Thompson Hobbs , Mevin Hooten
- Generalized Additive Models: An Introduction with R, Second Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science) 2nd Edition by Simon N. Wood
- Regression Modeling Strategies With Applications to Linear Models, Logistic Regression, and Survival Analysis by Harrell, Frank
- Graph Theory and Complex Networks: An Introduction by Maarten van Steen
- Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models 1st Edition by Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill โ this one (which I had already) was another very frequent recommendation!
Classic works:
- A Crude Look at the Whole: The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society by John H. Miller
- Daedalus, or Science and the Future by JBS Haldane
- Evidence and Evolution: the Logic behind the Science by Elliott Sober
- Biology as Ideology, Lewontin
So, as Margaret Kosmala of Ec0l0gy b1ts says: what are we reading next?