Applied Statistical Modelling for Ecologists

Dr. Marc Kéry

Dr. Marc Kéry is a senior scientist at the Swiss Ornithological Institute, a non-profit NGO dedicated primarily to bird research, monitoring, and conservation. Marc was trained as a plant population ecologist at the universities of Basel and Zürich, Switzerland. After a 2-year postdoc at the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Center in Laurel, USA, he moved into animal population ecology. For the last 25 years, he has worked at the interface between population ecology, biodiversity monitoring, wildlife management, and applied statistics. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and six textbooks on applied statistical modeling. He has taught more than 60 one-week workshops worldwide to biologists and wildlife managers on the concepts and practice of modern statistical analysis in their fields, aligning with the target audience of his books.

Dr. Ken Kellner

Dr. Ken Kellner is an Assistant Research Professor at Michigan State University, MI, United States. Prior to his current position, he completed a Ph.D. in forest ecology at Purdue University, IN, United States, and a postdoc at West Virginia University, WV, United States. Ken’s research spans a wide range of topics including forest management, plant demography, and avian and mammal conservation, with over 40 peer-reviewed publications. Additionally, Ken is particularly focused on developing open-source software tools for ecological modeling. He has developed or contributed to several widely used software packages by ecologists, including the R packages jagsUI, unmarked, and ubms, which have been featured in several books.

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