Description
Book SynopsisProvides a handbook of ecological methods and analytical techniques pertinent to the study of animals, with an emphasis on non-microscopic animals in both terrestrial and aquatic environments.
Table of ContentsPreface to Fifth Edition, 2020 Preface to Fourth Edition, 2015 Preface to Third Edition, 1998 1: Introduction to the Study of Animals 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: Estimates of Species Richness and Population Size Based on Signs, Products and Effects 9: Wildlife Population Estimates by Census and Distance Measuring Techniques 10: Observational and Experimental Methods to Estimate Natality, Mortality, Movement and Dispersal 11: The Construction, Description and Analysis of Age-Specific Life-Tables 12: Age-Grouping, Time-Specific Life-Tables and Predictive Population 13: Species Richness, Diversity and Packing 14: The Estimation of Productivity and the Construction of Energy Budgets 15: Techniques for the Study of Long-Term Dynamics-Analysing Time Series 16: Studies at Large Spatial Scales, Citizen Science and the Classification of Habitats
