Saritha Kodikara

Inferring extinction date of a species using non-homogeneous Poisson processes with a change-point

Saritha Kodikara, Haydar Demirhan, Yan Wang, Lewi Stone

Journal article  |  2020  |  METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Bayesian methods have been developed for inferring the true year of extinction of a species from sighting records that have both c..

Inferring extinction year using a Bayesian approach

Saritha Kodikara, Haydar Demirhan, Yan Wang, Andrew Solow, Lewi Stone

Journal article  |  2020  |  METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Species sighting records are combined with statistical models to infer whether an endangered species might have become extinct, or..

Using survival theory models to quantify extinctions

Colin J Thompson, Saritha Kodikara, Mark A Burgman, Haydar Demirhan, Lewi Stone

Journal article  |  2020  |  BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Extinctions are difficult to observe and typically are inferred from the timing and reliability of field observations and collecti..

Bayesian updating to estimate extinction from sequential observation data

Colin J Thompson, Saritha Kodikara, Mark A Burgman, Haydar Demirhan, Lewi Stone

Journal article  |  2019  |  BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Several new approaches to estimating the probability that a species is extinct have emerged recently. Different foundational assum..

Inferring about the extinction of a species using certain and uncertain sightings

Saritha Kodikara, Haydar Demirhan, Lewi Stone

Journal article  |  2018  |  JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

The sighting record of threatened species is often used to infer the possibility of extinction. Most of these sightings have uncer..