Here, biologists and statisticians come together in an interdisciplinary synthesis with the aim of developing new methods to overcome the most significant challenges and constraints faced by quantitative biologists seeking to model demographic rates.

Population Dynamics - Growth, Density-Dependence and Decomposing ?.- Evolutionary Ecology.- Abundance Estimation - Direct Methods, Proxies, Occupancy Models and Point Count Data.- Dispersal, Movement and Migration - Methods and Multi-State Models.- Wildlife and Conservation Management.- Combing Sources of Information - Kalman Filters, Matrix Methods and Joint Likelihoods.- Bayesian Applications - Advances, Random Effects and Hierarchical Models.- The Robust Design - Sampling, Applications and Advances.- State Uncertainty - Assignmant Error and Unobservable States.- New Software Developments for Modeling Demographic Processes.- Open Forum.