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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... problem and state your objectives clearly . Often your objective will be to answer a question , to test an ecological hypothesis . Do not labor under the false impression that a statistician can help you to find a problem that is ...
... problem when there are many replications . Hurlbert ( 1984 ) introduced the useful idea of pseudoreplication to describe a statis- tical error of using replicates from experiments that violate the principle of interspersion ( Figure ...
... problem except to recognize that it is present in our data . A related problem is how resource states are recognized by organisms and by field ecologists . If an ecologist recognizes more resource states than the organism , there is no ...