Description: Surveying Natural PopulationsQuantitative Tools for Assessing Biodiversity Author(s): Lee-Ann Hayek, Martin Buzas Format: Hardback Publisher: Columbia University Press, United States Imprint: Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 9780231146203, 978-0231146203 Synopsis Surveying Natural Populations is a user-friendly primer to the essential methodologies of quantitative field ecology or paleoecology. Combining the intuitive methods of the field researcher with the mathematical precision of the statistician, the volume determines, through real biodiversity and ecological examples, the necessary measures for a complete community assessment while clarifying the confusions between biological and statistical terminology. Focusing on underlying mathematical concepts, it describes how to complete incrementally a quantitative sampling of any recent or fossil population. The first half of Surveying Natural Populations explains the fundamentals of ecological assessment. Employing a single data set throughout, initial chapters navigate such topics as estimating densities, relative abundance, occurrences, the determination of adequate sample sizes and field sampling schemes. The second half covers the newest advances in biodiversity measurement. Through the use of information mathematics and decomposition, the authors mathematically examine the relationship among a number of proposed diversity indices and discard inappropriate measures. What remains is a simple, all-encompassing system called SHE analysis, in which species density, richness, information, and evenness are all shown to be related explicitly. This biodiversity data is then integrated into a simple graphic, a plot called a biodiversitygram, which provides the researcher with a cohesive descriptive and inferential tool to assess any community's biodiversity.
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Book Title: Surveying Natural Populations
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 254 mm
Subject: Geography & Geosciences, Biology, Mathematics
Publication Year: 2010
Number of Pages: 616 Pages
Publication Name: Surveying Natural Populations: Quantitative Tools for Assessing Biodiversity
Language: English
Type: Textbook
Author: Martin Buzas, Lee-Ann Hayek
Item Width: 178 mm
Format: Hardcover
