Ecological MethodologyThis coherent text translates the methods of statisticians into "ecological English" so that students may readily apply these methods to the real world. Ecological Methodology, Second Edition provides a balance of material on animal and plant populations. It teaches students of ecology how to design the most efficient tests in order to obtain maximum precision with minimal work. The first part of the text focuses on biological and technical issues in statistical methodology. Students learn about advances that have been made in designing better sampling devices, along with the techniques and equipment used for sampling. The second part deals with creating solid statistical design, and presents all methods that are well-known to statisticians in a language and context that students will easily understand. |
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... captured with each pos- sible capture history . They provide a computer program to do these tests , which are similar to the Leslie , Chitty , and Chitty test . 2.5 PLANNING A MARK - RECAPTURE STUDY The most important message this ...
... capture as unmarked individuals . This assumption is often violated in natural populations , and four statistical tests are presented to test this critical assumption in a variety of sam- pling situations with closed and open ...
... CAPTURE is essentially the equivalent of the Petersen and Schnabel models discussed in Chapter 2. If the null model does not fit the observed data well , there are three primary sources of variation that can cause changes in capture ...