Ecological MethodologyEcological Methodology, Second Edition provides a balance of material on animal and plant populations, and teaches students of ecology how to design efficient tests in order to obtain maximum precision with minimal work. |
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... spatial patterns in populations . In doing so , the jargon of ecology and statistics have become enmeshed and ... pattern or pattern to describe the geographic distribution of individuals . Population : ( a ) In statistics , the universe ...
... spatial patterns in populations . In doing so , the jargon of ecology and statistics have become enmeshed and ... pattern or pattern to describe the geographic distribution of individuals . Population : ( a ) In statistics , the universe ...
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... pattern is uniform . Thus the F - test for h is a two - tailed F - test in which h will be significantly small if ... spatial pattern . Density Estimation The original reason for developing distance measures of the general sort shown in ...
... pattern is uniform . Thus the F - test for h is a two - tailed F - test in which h will be significantly small if ... spatial pattern . Density Estimation The original reason for developing distance measures of the general sort shown in ...
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... spatial pattern . A series of techniques of increasing sophistication are available for analyzing pattern in spa- tial maps . In the more usual case , a large area is sampled using distance measures . The practical problems associated ...
... spatial pattern . A series of techniques of increasing sophistication are available for analyzing pattern in spa- tial maps . In the more usual case , a large area is sampled using distance measures . The practical problems associated ...
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abundance aphids Appendix assumptions bias calculations capture Caughley census zone Chapter chi-square clumped coefficient of variation confidence interval confidence limits defined density estimate distance ecological ecologists END-OF-FILE Enter equal catchability equation estimate of population estimate population example Figure finite population FORMAT 2X formula frequency distribution index of dispersion line transect mark-recapture marked animals method n₁ nearest neighbor negative binomial distribution niche breadth niche overlap normal distribution null hypothesis Number of animals Number of individuals number of quadrats number of samples number of species observed obtained parameters Petersen plot Poisson distribution population density population estimate problem Program proportion quadrat counts random points random sampling ratio READ recaptures regression sample size sample sizes sampling unit Schnabel Seber second sample simple random sampling spatial pattern standard error statistical statistical population stratum study area survival rate Table techniques Total number transformation variable variance