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This classic text, whose First Edition one reviewer referred to as ""the ecologist's bible"", has been substantially revised and rewritten. Not only have the advances made in the field since the Second Edition been taken into account, but the scope has been explicitly extended to all macroscopic animals, with particular attention being paid to fish as well as other vertebrates. Ecological Methods provide 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. The text is extensively illustrated, clearly describing a wide range of equipment and methods of analysis. Comprehensive and up-to-date bibliographies to each chapter fully cover the relevant literature, and references are given to available computer programs and internet addresses. Like the earlier editions, this book will be an indispensable source of reference to researchers and students at all levels in the fields of ecology, entomology and zoology. 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. The site is located at http:/www.blackwell-science.com/southwood.

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Author:   T. R. E. Southwood (University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford) ,  Peter A. Henderson (The Square, Pennington, Lymington, Hants)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Blackwell Science Ltd
Edition:   3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.942kg
ISBN:  

9780632054770

ISBN 10:   0632054778
Pages:   592
Publication Date:   26 May 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

Prefaces 1. Introduction to the Study of Animal Populations2. The Sampling Programme and the Measurement and Description of Dispersion3. Absolute Population Estimates Using Capture-Recapture Experiments4. Absolute Population Estimates by Sampling a Unit of Habitat: Air, Plants, Plant Products and Vertebrate Hosts5. Absolute Population Estimates by Sampling a Unit of Aquatic Habitat6. Absolute Population Estimates by Sampling a Unit of Soil or Litter Habitat: Extraction Techniques7. Relative Methods of Population Measurement and the Derivation of Absolute Estimates8. Estimates of Species Richness and Population Size Based on Signs, Products and Effects9. Wildlife Population Estimates by Census and Distance Measuring Techniques10. Observational and Experimental Methods for the Estimation of Natality, Mortality and Dispersal11. The Construction, Description and Analysis of Age-Specific Life-Tables12. Age-grouping, Time-Specific Life Tables and Predictive Population Models13. Species Richness, Diversity and Packing14. The Estimation of Productivity and the Construction of energy Budgets15. Studies at large Spatial and Temporal Scales and the Classification of Habitats References Index

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