Ecological methods

This classic text, whose First Edition one reviewer referred to as ""the ecologists' bible, "" has been substantially revised and rewritten. Not only have the advances made in the field since the Second Edition been taken into account, but the scope has been explicitly extended to all macroscopic animals, with particular attention being paid to fish as well as other vertebrates. Ecological Methods provides a unique synthesis of the methods and techniques available for the study of populations and ecosystems. Techniques used to obtain both absolute and relative population estimates.

Ecological Methods, Third Edition; Contents; Prefaces; 1: Introduction to the Study of Animal Populations; 1.1 Population estimates; 1.1.1 Absolute and related estimates; 1.1.2 Relative estimates; 1.1.3 Population indices; 1.2 Errors and confidence; References; 2: The Sampling Programme and the Measurement and Description of Dispersion; 2.1 Preliminary sampling; 2.1.1 Planning and fieldwork; 2.1.2 Statistical aspects; 2.2 The sampling programme; 2.2.1 The number of samples per habitat unit (e.g. plant, host, or puddle); 2.2.2 The sampling unit, its selection, size, and shape

2.2.3 The number of samples2.2.4 The pattern of sampling; 2.2.5 The timing of sampling; 2.3 Data processing; 2.4 Jackknife and bootstrap techniques; 2.5 Dispersion; 2.5.1 Mathematical distributions that serve as models; 2.5.2 Biological interpretation of dispersion parameters; 2.5.3 Nearest-neighbour and related techniques:measures of departure from randomness of the distribution; 2.6 Sequential sampling; 2.6.1 Sampling numbers; 2.6.2 Presence or absence sampling; 2.6.3 Sampling a fauna; References; 3: Absolute Population Estimates Using Capture-Recapture Experiments

3.1 Capture-recapture methods3.1.1 Assump…