Performance of neutral parameter estimation based on simulations

Abstract

In continuation of the previous lecture on parameter estimation techniques of Hubbell’s spatially implicit neutral model, some preliminary results will be presented on the performance of the estimation of the neutral parameters. These results based on simulations show the how the size of the plot samples, the species diversity in the regional pool and a spatially implicit measure of species migration can produce bias or undesired variance in estimation. A spatially explicit approach to understand the effects of dispersal limitation and migration limitation and further application to datasets available from the Western Ghats will be briefly defined .

Speaker

Champak Beeravolu Reddy (IFP)

Organisers

Department of Ecology, French Institute of Pondicherry

Venue

Jawaharlal Nehru Conference Hall, French Institute of Pondicherry, 11, Saint Louis Street, Pondicherry - 605 001

Time

17h00