Surveying Natural Populations : Quantitative Tools for Assessing Biodiversity / Martin Buzas, Lee-Ann Hayek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayek, Lee-Ann, author.

Buzas, Martin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleoecology--Statistical methods.

Paleoecology.

Population biology--Statistical methods.

Population biology.

Science--Life Sciences--Ecology.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 52 illus.

Edition:

second edition

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2010]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. INTRODUCTION

2. DENSITY: MEAN AND VARIANCE

3. NORMAL AND SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS FOR FIELDWORK

4. CONFIDENCE LIMITS AND INTERVALS FOR DENSITY

5. HOW MANY FIELD SAMPLES?

6. SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION: THE POWER CURVE

7. FIELD SAMPLING SCHEMES

8. SPECIES PROPORTIONS: RELATIVE ABUNDANCES

9. SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS

10. REGRESSION: OCCURRENCES AND DENSITY

11. SPECIES OCCURRENCES

12. SPECIES DIVERSITY: THE NUMBER OF SPECIES

13. BIODIVERSITY: DIVERSITY INDICES USING N AND S

14. BIODIVERSITY: DIVERSITY MEASURES USING RELATIVE ABUNDANCES

15. BIODIVERSITY: DOMINANCE AND EVENNESS

16. BIODIVERSITY: UNIFYING DIVERSITY AND EVENNESS MEASURES WITH CANONICAL EQUATIONS

17. BIODIVERSITY: SHE ANALYSIS AS THE ULTIMATE UNIFICATION THEORY OF BIODIVERSITY WITH THE COMPLETE BIODIVERSITYGRAM

18. BIODIVERSITY: SHE ANALYSIS FOR COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IDENTIFICATION, SHECSI

APPENDIX

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231534963

0231534965

OCLC:

1013960685