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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... illustrates one of these figures for a range of population sizes from 50 to 500 and a range of survival rates from low to high . Four general principles are illustrated in these graphs : 1. Precision increases as the capture probability ...
... illustrates this conversion procedure . In general you should not extrapolate time periods too much when doing these conversions . If you measure survival rates over 3 days it is somewhat misleading to convert this to an annual survival ...
... illustrates the use of key factor analysis on data from the cinnabar moth . These steps are repeated for several generations ( a minimum of 5-10 ) , and one then proceeds to the more useful and interesting part of key factor analysis ...