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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... techniques which are used most often when data are required on individual organisms that are highly mobile . The strength of mark - and - recapture techniques is that they can be used to provide information on birth , death , and ...
... techniques which are used most often when data are required on individual organisms that are highly mobile . The strength of mark - and - recapture techniques is that they can be used to provide information on birth , death , and ...
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... TECHNIQUES A special set of techniques have been developed for estimating population size in exploited populations . Many of these techniques are highly specific for exploited fish populations ( Ricker , 1975 ; Seber , 1982 ) , but some ...
... TECHNIQUES A special set of techniques have been developed for estimating population size in exploited populations . Many of these techniques are highly specific for exploited fish populations ( Ricker , 1975 ; Seber , 1982 ) , but some ...
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... techniques ought to be more accurate , because chance anomalies with individual samples may start agglomerative techniques off with some bad combinations which snowball as more agglomeration proceeds . 3. Monothetic or polythetic : in a ...
... techniques ought to be more accurate , because chance anomalies with individual samples may start agglomerative techniques off with some bad combinations which snowball as more agglomeration proceeds . 3. Monothetic or polythetic : in a ...
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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