U.S.-France Cooperative Research: Unified Theory and        Associated Computer Software to Estimate Parameters of      Animal Populations by Capture-Recapture
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{'SignBlockName': 'Pierre Perrolle'}
This award will support collaborative research between                          Profs. David Anderson, Kenneth Burnham and Stephen                              Buckland of Colorado State University, Fort Collins,                            and Dr. Jean-Dominique Lebreton of the Section of                               Ecological Systems Studies of the Centre National de                            la Recherche Scientifique, Montpellier, France, on the                          statistics of animal population studies.  The                                   objectives of this work are to produce a unified                                theory for studies of animal populations; to produce                            generalized analysis software to allow parameters                               affecting animal populations to be functionally                                 related to each other, and to verify this work by                               analysis of some large data sets.  A unified approach                           will be brought to the statistical methods underlying                           open-population capture-recapture studies, thus                                 facilitating comprehensive analysis of large sets of                            data.  This approach is based upon the viewing of                               population study methods as primarily studies of                                cohort survival processes, and consequent focus on                              survival rate, rather than population size.  New                                approaches to experimental design and data analysis                             will be developed on this basis.                                                                                                                                The French collaborators have acquired  considerable                            important data on animal populations in Europe, which                           will be correlated with similar data available for the                          U.S. Comprehensive computer software will be developed                          by both groups and applied to the available data                                sets.  This research could have important implications                          in the study and management of wild animal                                      populations.
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{'Name': 'Colorado State University', 'CityName': 'Fort Collins', 'ZipCode': '805232002', 'PhoneNumber': '9704916355', 'StreetAddress': '601 S Howes St', 'CountryName': 'United States', 'StateName': 'Colorado', 'StateCode': 'CO'}
{'Code': '5918', 'Text': 'FRANCE'}
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