Design and analysis of ecological experiments. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Samuel M. Scheiner and Jessica Gurevitch.
• Authors: Scheiner, Sam
• Editors: Scheiner, Samuel M, 1956-; Gurevitch, Jessica
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Theories, hypotheses, and statistics 2. Exploratory data analysis and graphic display 3. ANOVA: Experiments in controlled environment 4. ANOVA and ANCOVA: Field competition experiments 5. MANOVA: Multiple response variables and multispecies interactions 6. Repeated-measures analysis: Growth and other time-dependent measures 7. Time-series intervention analysis: Unreplicated large-scale experiments 8. Nonlinear curve fitting: Predation and functional response curves 9. Multiple regression: Herbivory 10. Path analysis: Pollination 11. Population sampling and bootstrapping in complex designs: Demographic analysis 12. Failure-time analysis: Emergence, flowering, survivorship, and other waiting times 13. The bootstrap and the jackknife: Describing the precision of ecological indices 14. Spatial statistics: Analysis of field experiments 15. Mantel tests: Spatial structure in field experiments 16. Model validation: Optimal foraging theory 17. Meta-analysis: Combining the results of independent experiments
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 577.078; Ecology -- Experiments
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000152968
• Related ISBNs: 9781000109924; 9781000126181; 9781003059813
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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