Why a multievent course ?
The ever-changing field of capture-recapture techniques have brought biologists
to ask fine questions on multiple biological processes such as recruitment,
survival and dispersal. This need has led to the development of a general and
highly flexible analytical framework: the multievent model. Multievent
capture-recapture models are a natural generalization of the multisite
recapture models. Similarly, individuals are sampled on discrete occasions, at
which they may be captured or not. However, contrary to the multisite case,
uncertainty in the assessment of state such as breeder, diseased or highly
catchable can be incorporated into the analysis. Conceptually, it is not states
that are observed but rather something dubbed an "event" (a
particular breeding behaviour, a positive blood test or just encounter), which reflects
to some extent the underlying state. The presence of imperfect observations and
the lack of information on individual quality presently make multievent models
an invaluable tool in virtually any area of population biology. Current
applications of multievent models include the study of dispersal, epidemiology,
individual heterogeneity, mixture of information...
What is this course?
The course aims to provide the
participants with a solid background in the philosophy, theory and practices
for the analysis of data from marked animals, with a specific focus on
multievent data and models. This course will deal with recent
advances in the analysis of CMR data, with a specific focus on multievent data
and models. New developments allow the treatment of individual heterogeneity
through random effects as well as through mixture models, and the inclusion of
individual as well as environmental covariates. Emphasis will be placed on
stringent procedures for building and selecting the most appropriate models for
the data set at hand, in order to be able to draw reliable biological
conclusions. The format of the workshop will be a combination of
lectures and computer lab exercises with the programs E-SURGE (or R2ESURGE) and
U-CARE. (http://www.cefe.cnrs.fr/fr/recherche/bc/bbp/1045-desc/264-logiciels). U-CARE
incorporates goodness-of-fit tests for multistate models, and E-SURGE makes the
building of complex models easy based on a language describing the structure of
models in a compact and user-friendly way. All lectures and course material
will be in English. It is our hope that participants will bring their own
capture-recapture data to work on them during the workshop. To take full
advantage of the workshop, it is expected that the participants will have some
basic practice of the analysis of CR data.
Time-table (indicative):
Monday 28 November
9h00-9h15: Arrival and
workshop
registration
9h15- 9h30 BASE 1: Introduction
9h30 -10h15 BASE 2: Multievent
10h15-10h45 Coffee
Break
10h45-11h30 EXERCISE: Titi (Breeder – Non-Breeder)
11h30-12h15 BASE 4: Main factors 1
12h15- 13h00 BASE 6: Main factors 2
13h00-14h15 Lunch
14h15-15h15 EXERCISE
3: Canada Goose
15h15-16h00 STATNUM
1: Goodness of Fit
16h00-16h30 Break
16h30-17h15 EXERCISE
5: Simulated data + Canada Goose
Tuesday 29 Novemebr
8h45-9h30 STATNUM 2: Heterogeneity model
9h30-10h30 EXERCISE 6: Black Headed Gull
10h30-11h00 Break
11h00-12h00 STATNUM 3: Specifying model structure (GEPAT)
12h00-13h00 EXERCISE 7: Modeling senescence
13h00-14h15 Lunch
14h15-14h45 STATNUM 4: Numerical aspects
14h45-15h45 EXERCISE 8: Flamingo
15h45-16h15 Break
16h15-17h00 THEORY: Occupancy models
17h00-18h00 EXERCISE 10: Lynx (Occupancy)
Wednesday 30 November
9h00-13h00 PREPARE WORK on PERSONAL DATA SETS
13h00-14h30 Lunch
Who is
organizing this course?
The course is organized by the CEFE – CNRS Montpellier
https://www.cefe.cnrs.fr/.
Lectures will be given by Dr. R. Choquet, Dr. R. Pradel, Dr. G. Tavecchia, Dr. A. Sanz-Aguilar
When and where?
The course will be held in Esporles (Mallorca, Spain) at the IMEDEA (CSIC –
UIB, http://www.imedea.uib.es/) from the 29th of November to the 1st of
December 2021.
The closest (and only) airport on Mallorca island is outside the city of
Palma. There are several companies offering low-cost flights to Mallorca from
nearly every European capital.
Esporles is a village at c. 14 km North of Palma city. There are regular
buses between Palma and Esporles (c. 35min journey, about 4 € return). You
can easily find an accommodation in Palma, stay in one of the three hotels in
Esporles or rent a small flat. We will send you more detailed information if
you decide to come.
How much does it cost and how to pay?
Registration fee is 300 € or 250€ if you have registered to the Introductory Course.
The fee includes the course material and coffee/tea during Coffee breaks.
To apply visit http://multievent.sciencesconf.org
Alternatively, inscriptions should be done by sending a message to : remi.choquet@cefe.cnrs,fr
What do I need?
You need a laptop (important!) with the following freely available software
already installed:
3- R: http://cran.r-project.org/ (>Software > Packages).
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