CONTENTS:- Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Density: Mean and Variance; Normal and Sampling Distributions for Fieldwork; How Many Field Samples; Spatial Distribution: The Power Curve; Field Sampling Schemes; Species Proportions: Relative Abundance; Species Distributions; Regression: Occurrences and Density; Species Occurrences; Diversity Indices; SHE Analysis; Appendix.
DESCRIPTION
A user-friendly primer to the essential techniques of quantitative field ecology, or paleoecology, integrating the intuitive approach of the field researcher with the rational analytical tools of the statistician.
