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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... marked animals at large ( M , ) against the ratio of total catch to marked catch ( C , / R , ) should be a straight line to fit this model , and the x - intercept ( arrow ) is the estimate of population size . These data are the same as ...
... marked ( m , ) 0 15 Total unmarked ( u , ) 22 26 32 Total caught ( n , ) 22 41 Total released ( s , ) 21 41 2832 16 ... animals may have been last caught at time 2 ( 15 ) or time 1 ( 1 ) . Marked individuals may thus evade capture for ...
... marked animals remain on the study area during the surveys . Thus the number of marked animals is constant , although the proba- bility of resighting need not be constant from sample to sample . Day - to - day variation in sightability ...