Ecological Methods

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Henderson, Peter A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2016.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Ecological Methods
  • Contents
  • Prefaces
  • Preface to fourth edition
  • Preface to third edition
  • Preface to second edition
  • Preface to first edition
  • About the Companion Website
  • 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 samples
  • 2.2.4 The pattern of sampling
  • 2.2.5 The timing of sampling
  • 2.3 Dispersion
  • 2.3.1 Mathematical distributions that serve as models
  • 2.3.2 Biological interpretation of dispersion parameters
  • 2.3.3 Nearest-neighbour and related techniques: measures of population size or of the departure from randomness of the distribution
  • 2.4 Sequential sampling
  • 2.4.1 Sampling numbers
  • 2.5 Presence or absence sampling
  • 2.6 Sampling a fauna
  • 2.7 Biological and other qualitative aspects of sampling
  • 2.8 Jack knife and Bootstrap techniques
  • References
  • 3 Absolute Population Estimates Using Capture-Recapture Experiments
  • 3.1 Capture-recapture methods
  • 3.1.1 Assumptions common to most methods
  • 3.1.2 Estimating closed populations
  • 3.1.3 Estimations for open populations
  • 3.2 Methods of marking animals
  • 3.2.1 Handling techniques
  • 3.2.2 Release
  • 3.2.3 Surface marks using paints and solutions of dyes
  • 3.2.4 Dyes and fluorescent substances in powder form
  • 3.2.5 Pollen
  • 3.2.6 Marking formed by feeding on or absorption of dyes
  • 3.2.7 Marking by injection, panjet or tattooing
  • 3.2.8 External tags
  • 3.2.9 Branding
  • 3.2.10 Mutilation
  • 3.2.11 Natural marks, parasites and genes
  • 3.2.12 Rare elements
  • 3.2.13 Protein marking
  • 3.2.14 Radioactive isotopes
  • 3.2.15 Radio and sonic tags
  • References
  • 4 Absolute Population Estimates by Sampling a Unit of Habitat
  • Air, Plants, Plant Products and Vertebrate Hosts
  • 4.1 Sampling from the air
  • 4.2 Sampling apparatus
  • 4.2.1 Exposed cone (Johnson-Taylor) suction trap
  • 4.2.2 Enclosed cone types of suction trap including the Rothamsted 12m trap
  • 4.2.3 Rotary and other traps
  • 4.3 Comparison and efficiencies of the different types of suction traps
  • 4.3.1 Conversion of catch to aerial density
  • 4.3.2 Conversion of density to total aerial population
  • 4.4 Sampling from plants
  • 4.4.1 Assessing the plant
  • 4.4.2 Determining the numbers of invertebrates
  • 4.4.3 The extraction of animals from herbage and debris
  • 4.4.4 Methods for animals in plant tissues
  • 4.4.5 Special sampling problems with animals in plant material
  • 4.5 Sampling from vertebrate hosts

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