Ecological Methodology

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Benjamin/Cummings, 1999 - Science - 620 pages

This 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.

Contents

4
45
Removal Methods and Resight Methods
70
Quadrat Counts
105
Line Transects and Distance Methods
158
Part Two Spatial Pattern in Animal and Plant Populations
189
Indices of Dispersion for Quadrat Counts
191
Part Three
227
5
256
Sequential Sampling
303
Experimental Designs
340
Part Four Estimating Community Parameters
373
Species Diversity Measures
410
Niche Measures and Resource Preferences
455
Part Five Ecological Miscellanea
497
The Garbage Can
542
Appendices
577

3
288
Sampling Units of Equal Size
295
Index
607
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About the author (1999)

Charles Krebs is Professor of Zoology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and has been teaching for 40 years. He received his B.S. from the University of Minnesota and earned both his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. In addition to teaching ecology, he has worked extensively on the population of rodents in Northern Canada, the United States, and Australia, trying to understand the mechanisms behind population fluctuations. He has published three ecology textbooks including Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance, Fifth Edition and Ecological Methodology, Second Edition both published by Benjamin Cummings. In his spare time, Charles can be found drinking fine wines.hors have any!) hiking and kayaking. He is married and has three cats.

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