| Description |
xv, 575 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction to the Study of Animal Populations -- 2. The Sampling Programme and the Measurement and Description of Dispersion -- 3. Absolute Population Estimates Using Capture-Recapture Experiments -- 4. Absolute Population Estimates by Sampling a Unit of Habitat: Air, Plants, Plant Products, and Vertebrate Hosts -- 5. Absolute Population Estimates by Sampling a Unit of Aquatic Habitat -- 6. Absolute Population Estimates by Sampling a Unit of Soil or Litter Habitat: Extraction Techniques -- 7. Relative Methods of Population Measurement and the Derivation of Absolute Estimates -- 8. Indices: the Use of Signs, Products, and Effects -- 9. Wildlife Population Estimates by Census and Distance-measuring Techniques -- 10. Observational and Experimental Methods for the Estimation of Natality, Mortality, and Dispersal -- 11. The Construction, Description, and Analysis of Age-specific Life-tables -- 12. Age-grouping, Time-specific Life-tables, and Predictive Population Models -- 13. Species Richness, Diversity, and Packing -- 14. The Estimation of Productivity and the Construction of Energy Budgets -- 15. Large Scale Spatial and Temporal Studies and the Classification of Habitats |
| Summary |
"This book provides a unique synthesis of the methods and techniques available for the study of populations and ecosystems. Techniques used to obtain both absolute and relative population estimates are described, and approaches to the direct measurement of births, deaths, migration and the construction and interpretation of life tables are reviewed. Subsequent chapters examine those methods used for the measurement and description of biodiversity, species packing, energy flow and tropic relationships |
| Notes |
"This book has an active website that provides additional illustrations, details of equipment and computer programs as well as references to work published since the manuscript was completed."--T.p |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Animal populations.
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Ecological surveys -- Methodology.
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Ecology -- Technique.
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Insect populations.
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Insects -- Ecology.
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| Author |
Henderson, P. A.
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| LC no. |
99039859 |
| ISBN |
0632054778 |
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