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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... sample . 3. Marking individuals does not affect their catchability . 4. Animals do not lose marks between the two sampling periods . 5. All marks are reported upon discovery in the second sample . If the first assumption is to hold in a ...
... time 2 ( 15 ) or time 1 ( 1 ) . Marked individuals may thus evade capture for one or more sampling periods . In an intensive mark - recapture program , most of the marked ani- mals caught will have been last caught at the previous sampling ...
... sampling method of some type , but in a few situations , enumeration is a possible strategy . Enumeration methods ... periods , but if they are known to be present before and after the time of sampling , we assume they were present but ...