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2008

Kouritzin, Michael, Long, H.

In this paper, we give a direct derivation of the Duncan–Mortensen–Zakai filtering equation, without assuming right continuity of the signal, nor its filtration, and without the usual finite energy condition. As a consequence, the Fujisaki–Kallianpur–Kunita equation is also derived. Our results...

2009-01-01

Derocher, Andrew E., Klanjscek, Tin, Molnár, Péter K., Lewis, Mark A., Obbard, Martyn E.

Many species experience large fluctuations in food availability and depend on energy from fat and protein stores for survival, reproduction and growth. Body condition and, more specifically, energy stores thus constitute key variables in the life history of many species. Several indices exist to...

2009-01-01

Bampfylde, Caroline J., Jerde, Christopher L., Lewis, Mark A.

We formalize the establishment process for a sexual, semelparous organism through the use of hierarchical probability modeling from parameters of survival, probability of being female, probability of being fertilized, and expected fecundity.We show how to calculate the expected per capita growth...

2011-01-01

DiBacco, C., Lewis, Mark A., Strasser, C. A.

Aim We set out to develop a temperature-and salinity-dependent mechanistic population model for copepods that can be used to understand the role of environmental parameters in population growth or decline. Models are an important tool for understanding the dynamics of invasive species; our model...

2011-01-01

Young, J. D., Yan, N. D., Lewis, Mark A., Wittmann, M. J.

Whether the invasive freshwater cladoceran Bythotrephes longimanus can establish after introduction into a water body depends on several biotic and abiotic factors. Among these, water temperature is important because both development rates and mode of reproduction (parthenogenetic or sexual) in...

2011-01-01

Fagan, W. F., Jin, Y., Bishop, J. G., Marleau, J. M., Lewis, Mark A.

The relative importance of plant facilitation and competition during primary succession depends on the development of ecosystem nutrient pools, yet the interaction of these processes remains poorly understood. To explore how these mechanisms interact to drive successional dynamics, we devised a...

2011-01-01

Jin, Yu, Lewis, Mark A.

The critical domain size problem determines the size of the region of habitat needed to ensure population persistence. In this paper we address the critical domain size problem for seasonally fluctuating stream environments and determine how large a reach of suitable stream habitat is needed to...

2011-01-01

Lewis, Mark A., Derocher, Andrew E., Auger-Méthé, Marie, St. Clair, C. C.

2011-01-01

Molnár, Péter K., Derocher, Andrew E., Klanjscek, Tin, Lewis, Mark A.

Predicting the ecological impacts of climate warming is critical for species conservation. Incorporating future warming into population models, however, is challenging because reproduction and survival cannot be measured for yet unobserved environmental conditions. In this study, we use...

2012

Safouhi, Hassan, Gaudreau, Philippe J. , Slevinsky, Richard M.

Abstract. We use the recently developed algorithm for the G(1) n transformation to approximate tail probabilities of the normal distribution, the gamma distribution, the student’s t-distribution, the inverse Gaussian distribution, and Fisher’s F distribution. Using this algorithm, which can be...