Predicting Flightless Cormorant Behavior

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

6-24-2023

Abstract

This chapter is based on work carried out in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador in 2011. James Hayward and Susana Velastegui Chávez, with two graduate students, Libby Megna and Brianna Payne, collected the data. Shandelle Henson carried out the data analysis, which involved Poisson regression, logistic regression, and multi-model inference based on the Akaike information criterion (AIC). Results from the study were initially published in The Wilson Journal of Ornithology in 2013 [18]. We present this work as an example of how regression models can be used to explain the aggregate behavior of marine organisms.

Volume

57

First Page

69

Last Page

87

Book Title

Modeling Behavior and Population Dynamics: Seabirds, Seals, and Marine Iguanas

Editor

Jim M. Cushing, Shandelle M. Henson, & James L. Hayward

Publisher

Springer

City

Cham, Switzerland

Series

Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics

ISBN

978-3-031-34283-7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34283-7_5

First Department

Mathematics

Second Department

Biology

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