Surveying Natural Populations : : Quantitative Tools for Assessing Biodiversity / / Martin Buzas, Lee-Ann Hayek.
Surveying Natural Populations is a user-friendly primer to the essential methodologies of quantitative field ecology or paleoecology. Combining the intuitive methods of the field researcher with the mathematical precision of the statistician, the volume determines, through real biodiversity and ecol...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | second edition |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (616 p.) :; 52 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. DENSITY: MEAN AND VARIANCE
- 3. NORMAL AND SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS FOR FIELDWORK
- 4. CONFIDENCE LIMITS AND INTERVALS FOR DENSITY
- 5. HOW MANY FIELD SAMPLES?
- 6. SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION: THE POWER CURVE
- 7. FIELD SAMPLING SCHEMES
- 8. SPECIES PROPORTIONS: RELATIVE ABUNDANCES
- 9. SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS
- 10. REGRESSION: OCCURRENCES AND DENSITY
- 11. SPECIES OCCURRENCES
- 12. SPECIES DIVERSITY: THE NUMBER OF SPECIES
- 13. BIODIVERSITY: DIVERSITY INDICES USING N AND S
- 14. BIODIVERSITY: DIVERSITY MEASURES USING RELATIVE ABUNDANCES
- 15. BIODIVERSITY: DOMINANCE AND EVENNESS
- 16. BIODIVERSITY: UNIFYING DIVERSITY AND EVENNESS MEASURES WITH CANONICAL EQUATIONS
- 17. BIODIVERSITY: SHE ANALYSIS AS THE ULTIMATE UNIFICATION THEORY OF BIODIVERSITY WITH THE COMPLETE BIODIVERSITYGRAM
- 18. BIODIVERSITY: SHE ANALYSIS FOR COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IDENTIFICATION, SHECSI
- APPENDIX
- REFERENCES
- INDEX