Practical field ecology : a project guide /
Contributor(s): Wheater, C. Philip | Cook, Penny A | Bell, James.
Publisher: Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011Description: xxv, 362 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780470694282 (hbk.); 9780470694282:; 0470694289 (hbk.); 9780470694299 (pbk.); 0470694297 (pbk.).Subject(s): Ecology -- Study and teaching | Ecology -- Fieldwork | Ecology -- Research -- MethodologyDDC classification: 577.0723Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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577.072 MCC Analysis of ecological communities / | 577.0723 CON Field sampling : principles and practices in environmental analysis / | 577.0723 JON Practical skills in environmental science / | 577.0723 WHE Practical field ecology : a project guide / | 577.1 BOU Ecosystem services : from concept to practice / | 577.13 Environmental physics / | 577.13 MAS Introduction to environmental physics : planet earth, life and climate / |
Includes appendices, index and bibliographic references.
Preparation -- Monitoring site characteristics -- Sampling static organisms -- Sampling mobile organisms -- Analysing and interpreting information -- Presenting the information
This work introduces experimental design and data analysis as well as field monitoring skills for both plants and animals. Clearly structured throughout and written in a student-friendly manner, it concentrates on the techniques required to design a field based ecological survey and shows how to execute an appropriate sampling regime.