Ecological MethodologyThis coherent text translates the methods of statisticians into "ecological English" so that students may readily apply these methods to the real world. Ecological Methodology, Second Edition provides a balance of material on animal and plant populations. It teaches students of ecology how to design the most efficient tests in order to obtain maximum precision with minimal work. The first part of the text focuses on biological and technical issues in statistical methodology. Students learn about advances that have been made in designing better sampling devices, along with the techniques and equipment used for sampling. The second part deals with creating solid statistical design, and presents all methods that are well-known to statisticians in a language and context that students will easily understand. |
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... Boundary Strip Methods The simplest methods add a boundary strip around the trapping area to estimate the effec- tive size of area trapped . Figure 3.7 illustrates the principle of a boundary strip . The width of the boundary strip can ...
... Boundary strip " Figure 5.5 Schematic illustration of distance measures . The census zone is surrounded by a boundary strip , and in some cases the nearest organism is located in the boundary strip . Two types of measurements can be ...
... boundary strip is included in the study , but ecologists often do not use boundary strips because they wish to maximize sample size ( e.g. , Figure 6.1 ) . If the Clark and Evans test is applied in this situ- ation without using a boundary ...