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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... ecologist might burn one plot of grassland and leave a second plot unburned to test the hypothesis that burning reduces grasshopper abundance . Most ecologists apply the word experiment only to manipulative experiments , but this is too ...
... ecologists in particular have developed a wide array of multivariate statistical techniques to assist in the analysis of community patterns and to help in defining the envi- ronmental controls of community patterns . Gradient analysis ...
... ecologists can assign names to classes or groups . Classification is especially important in applied ecology and conservation . Ecologists have classified plant communities on the basis of many different characteristics , and since the ...