Analyzing the demographic structure of geographic ranges: Investigating techniques to predict geographic range size

• Brian A. Maurer
• Brian Dennis
• Subhash R. Lele
• Mark L. Taper

Abstract
We propose to develop a technique to study geographic variation in the demography of species of birds in North America adequately sampled by the Breeding Bird Survey. We will examine a general model of population dynamics that includes geographic variation in density dependent and independent population processes. The procedure we use will estimate parameters of this model using estimating equations.