Author: Vincent SchultzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biometry
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
An Annotated Bibliography on the Uses of Statistics in Ecology
Author: Vincent SchultzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biometry
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
An Annotated Bibliography on the Uses of Statistics in Ecology
Author: Vincent SchultzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
An Annotated bibliography on the uses of statistics in ecology
Author: Vincent SchultzAn Annotated Bibliography on the Uses of Statistics in Ecology : #b a Search of 31 Periodicals
Author: Vincent SchultzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ecological Statistics
Author: Gordon A. FoxPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199672547
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
The application and interpretation of statistics are central to ecological study and practice. Ecologists are now asking more sophisticated questions than in the past. These new questions, together with the continued growth of computing power and the availability of new software, have created a new generation of statistical techniques. These have resulted in major recent developments in both our understanding and practice of ecological statistics. This novel book synthesizes a number of these changes, addressing key approaches and issues that tend to be overlooked in other books such as missing/censored data, correlation structure of data, heterogeneous data, and complex causal relationships. These issues characterize a large proportion of ecological data, but most ecologists' training in traditional statistics simply does not provide them with adequate preparation to handle the associated challenges. Uniquely, Ecological Statistics highlights the underlying links among many statistical approaches that attempt to tackle these issues. In particular, it gives readers an introduction to approaches to inference, likelihoods, generalized linear (mixed) models, spatially or phylogenetically-structured data, and data synthesis, with a strong emphasis on conceptual understanding and subsequent application to data analysis. Written by a team of practicing ecologists, mathematical explanations have been kept to the minimum necessary. This user-friendly textbook will be suitable for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of ecology, evolution, environmental studies, and computational biology who are interested in updating their statistical tool kits. A companion web site provides example data sets and commented code in the R language.
Statistical Ecology
Author: Linda J. YoungPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475728298
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
Covering a wide range of disciplines, this book explains the formulae, techniques, and methods used in field ecology. By providing an awareness of the statistical foundation for existing methods, the book will make biologists more aware of the strengths and possible weaknesses of procedures employed, and statisticians more appreciative of the needs of the field ecologist. Unique to this book is a focus on ecological data for single-species populations, from sampling through modeling. Examples come from real situations in pest management, forestry, wildlife biology, plant protection, and environmental studies, as well as from classical ecology. All those using this book will acquire a strong foundation in the statistical methods of modern ecological research. This textbook is for late undergraduate and graduate students, and for professionals.
Handbook of Environmental and Ecological Statistics
Author: Alan E. GelfandPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351648543
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
This handbook focuses on the enormous literature applying statistical methodology and modelling to environmental and ecological processes. The 21st century statistics community has become increasingly interdisciplinary, bringing a large collection of modern tools to all areas of application in environmental processes. In addition, the environmental community has substantially increased its scope of data collection including observational data, satellite-derived data, and computer model output. The resultant impact in this latter community has been substantial; no longer are simple regression and analysis of variance methods adequate. The contribution of this handbook is to assemble a state-of-the-art view of this interface. Features: An internationally regarded editorial team. A distinguished collection of contributors. A thoroughly contemporary treatment of a substantial interdisciplinary interface. Written to engage both statisticians as well as quantitative environmental researchers. 34 chapters covering methodology, ecological processes, environmental exposure, and statistical methods in climate science.
Ecological Methods
Author: T. R. SouthwoodPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400958099
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
the virtual impossibility of extracting the many different species from a habitat with equal efficiency by a single method (e.g. Nef, 1960). 1.1 Population estimates Population estimates can be classified into a number of different types; the most convenient classification is that adopted by Morris (1955), although he used the terms somewhat differently in a later paper (1960). 1.1.1 Absolute and related estimates The animal numbers may be expressed as a density per unit area of the ground of the habitat. Such estimates are given by nearest neighbour and related techniques (Chapter 2), marking and recapture (Chapter 3), by sampling a known fraction of the habitat (Chapter 4-6) and by removal sampling and random walk techniques (Chapter 7). Absolute population The number of animals per unit area (e.g. hectare, acre). It is almost impossible to construct a budget or to study mortality factors without the conversion of population estimates to absolute figures, for not only do insects often move from the plant to the soil at different developmental stages, but the amount of plant material is itself always changing. The importance of obtaining absolute estimates cannot be overemphasized.
Bibliographies of Interest to the Atomic Energy Program
Author: Bibliographies of Interest to the Atomic Energy Program
Author: U.S. Atomic Energy CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description