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1 online resource (662 p.) |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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Description based upon print version of record |
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4.5.1 Sampling from living hosts |
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Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118895252 |
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1118895258 |
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