Ecological methods
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex :
John Wiley & Sons ,
c2016
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| Edition: | 4th ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction to the study of animal populations
- 2. The sampling and the measurement and description of dispersion
- 3. Absolute population estimates using capture-recapture experiments
- 4. Absolute population estimates by sampling a unit of habitat-air, plants, plant product and vertebrate hosts
- 5. Absolute population estimates by sampling a unit pf aquatic habitat
- 6. Absolute population estimates by sampling a unit of soil of litter habitat: extraction techniques
- 7. Relative methods of population measurement and the derivation of absolute estimates
- 8. Estimates of species richness and population size based on sings, products and effects
- 9. Wildlife population estimates by census and distance measuring techniques
- 10. Observational and experimental methods for the estimation of natality, mortality and dispersal
- 11. The construction, description and analysis of age-specific life-tables
- 12. Age-grouping, time-specific life-tables and predictive population models
- 13. Species richness, diversity and packing
- 14. The estimation of productivity and the construction of energy budgets
- 15. Studies at large spatial, temporal and numerical scales and the classification of habitats