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Practical methods in ecology / P.A. Henderson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003Description: vii, 163 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781405102445 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 577.028 HEN 023481
Contents:
Planning and preliminary considerations -- Estimating the reliability of estimates and testing for significance -- Sampling a unit of habitat -- estimating absolute population number -- Mark-recapture methods for population size estimation -- Distance sampling methods for population estimation -- Comparing the magnitude of populations -- trapping and other relative abundance methods -- Using signs and products as population indices -- Estimating age and growth -- Life-tables and population budgets -- Alpha diversity, species richness, and quality scores -- Species along environmental gradients -- beta diversity -- Comparing and classifying communities.
Summary: "Practical Methods in Ecology is an introductory manual of methods used by ecologists to collect and analyze data. Aimed at students with little practical or computational experience, it is an ideal text for university and senior high school students on field trips or taking courses in field ecology."--Back cover.
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 577.028 HEN 023481 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Course Reserve 023481

Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-159) and index.

Planning and preliminary considerations -- Estimating the reliability of estimates and testing for significance -- Sampling a unit of habitat -- estimating absolute population number -- Mark-recapture methods for population size estimation -- Distance sampling methods for population estimation -- Comparing the magnitude of populations -- trapping and other relative abundance methods -- Using signs and products as population indices -- Estimating age and growth -- Life-tables and population budgets -- Alpha diversity, species richness, and quality scores -- Species along environmental gradients -- beta diversity -- Comparing and classifying communities.

"Practical Methods in Ecology is an introductory manual of methods used by ecologists to collect and analyze data. Aimed at students with little practical or computational experience, it is an ideal text for university and senior high school students on field trips or taking courses in field ecology."--Back cover.

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