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40
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8349
World Ranking
2016
National Ranking
853

Overview

William A. Link is primarily affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields, with a significant focus on environmental science and social sciences. Their specialized areas of study include ecology, sociology and political science, statistics and probability, nature and landscape conservation, and marketing.

The scientist has contributed to several main research topics, including:

  • Race, History, and American Society
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • American History and Culture
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Higher Education Governance and Development

William A. Link's publication record includes papers published in prominent venues such as Ecological Applications, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Wildlife Management, Marine Mammal Science, and Conservation Letters. Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Link include:

  • Model selection for the North American Breeding Bird Survey (2020) in Ecological Applications
  • Sources of variation in maternal allocation in a long-lived mammal (2020) in Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Population dynamics and harvest management of eastern mallards (2023) in Journal of Wildlife Management
  • A Bayesian Dirichlet process community occupancy model to estimate community structure and species similarity (2020) in Ecological Applications
  • Investigating diverse sources of variation in the amount of time Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) pups spend in the water during the lactation period (2022) in Marine Mammal Science

The scientist's frequent collaborators include Jay J. Rotella (3 collaborations), John R. Sauer (2 collaborations), Kaitlin R. Macdonald (2 collaborations), Robert A. Garrott (2 collaborations), and Daniel K. Niven (1 collaboration).

In addition to journal articles, William A. Link has contributed to book publications. One such work is titled Frank Porter Graham, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Suggestions for presenting the results of data analyses

    David R. Anderson;William A. Link;Douglas H. Johnson;Kenneth P. Burnham

  • Observer differences in the North American Breeding Bird Survey

    John R. Sauer;Bruce G. Peterjohn;William A. Link

  • MODEL WEIGHTS AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF MULTIMODEL INFERENCE

    William A. Link;Richard J. Barker

  • Bayesian Inference: With Ecological Applications

    William A. Link;Richard J. Barker

  • Generalized site occupancy models allowing for false positive and false negative errors.

    J. Andrew Royle;William A. Link

  • On thinning of chains in MCMC

    William A. Link;Mitchell J. Eaton

  • Nonidentifiability of population size from capture-recapture data with heterogeneous detection probabilities.

    William A. Link

  • ESTIMATING POPULATION CHANGE FROM COUNT DATA: APPLICATION TO THE NORTH AMERICAN BREEDING BIRD SURVEY

    William A. Link;John R. Sauer

  • Analysis of multinomial models with unknown index using data augmentation

    J. Andrew Royle;Robert M Dorazio;William A Link

  • A HIERARCHICAL ANALYSIS OF POPULATION CHANGE WITH APPLICATION TO CERULEAN WARBLERS

    William A. Link;John R. Sauer

  • On the reliability of N-mixture models for count data.

    Richard J. Barker;Matthew R. Schofield;William A. Link;John R. Sauer

  • OF BUGS AND BIRDS: MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO FOR HIERARCHICAL MODELING IN WILDLIFE RESEARCH

    William A. Link;Emmanuelle Cam;James D. Nichols;Evan G. Cooch

  • Estimating breeding proportions and testing hypotheses about costs of reproduction with capture-recapture data

    James D. Nichols;James E. Hines;Kenneth H. Pollock;Robert L. Hinz

  • On the importance of sampling variance to investigations of temporal variation in animal population size

    William A. Link;James D. Nichols

  • ESTIMATION OF POPULATION TRAJECTORIES FROM COUNT DATA

    William A. Link;John R. Sauer

  • On the robustness of N-mixture models

    William A. Link;Matthew R. Schofield;Richard J. Barker;John R. Sauer

  • HIERARCHICAL MODELING OF POPULATION STABILITY AND SPECIES GROUP ATTRIBUTES FROM SURVEY DATA

    John R. Sauer;William A. Link

  • Modeling association among demographic parameters in analysis of open population capture-recapture data.

    William A. Link;Richard J. Barker

  • Uncovering a Latent Multinomial: Analysis of Mark–Recapture Data with Misidentification

    William A. Link;Jun Yoshizaki;Larissa L. Bailey;Kenneth H. Pollock

  • A Hierarchical Model for Regional Analysis of Population Change Using Christmas Bird Count Data, with Application to the American Black Duck

    William A. Link;John R. Sauer;Daniel K. Niven

  • Invited Paper: SUGGESTIONS FOR PRESENTING THE RESULTS OF DATA ANALYSES

    David R. Anderson;William A. Link;Douglas H. Johnson;Kenneth P. Burnham

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth H. Pollock
Kenneth H. Pollock North Carolina State University
Mark A. Taggart
Mark A. Taggart University of the Highlands and Islands
Andrew A. Meharg
Andrew A. Meharg Queen's University Belfast
Deborah J. Pain
Deborah J. Pain University of Cambridge

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