Ecological Methods With Particular Reference to the Study of Insect Populations - Southwood, T.R.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1978)
1 Introduction to the study of animal populations -- 1.1 Population Estimates -- 1.2 Errors and Confidence -- 2 The sampling programme and the measurement and description of dispersion -- 2.1 Preliminary Sampling -- 2.2 The Sampling Programme -- 2.3 Dispersion -- 2.4 Sequential Sampling -- 2.5 Presence or Absence Sampling -- 2.6 Sampling a Fauna -- 2.7 Biological and Other Qualitative Aspects of Sampling -- 3 Absolute population estimates using marking techniques -- 3.1 Methods of Marking Animals -- 3.2 Capture-Recapture Methods of Estimating Population Parameters -- 4 Absolute population estimates by sampling a unit of habitat -air, plants, plant products and vertebrate hosts -- 4.1 Sampling from the AIR -- 4.2 Sampling From Plants -- 4.3 Sampling from Vertebrate Hosts -- 5 Absolute population estimates by sampling a unit of habitat-soil and litter -- 5.1 Sampling -- 5.2 Mechanical Methods of Extraction -- 5.3 Behavioural or Dynamic Methods -- 5.4 Summary of the Applicability of the Methods -- 6 Absolute population estimates by sampling a unit of habitat - freshwater habitats -- 6.1 Open Water -- 6.2 Vegetation -- 6.3 Bottom Fauna -- 7 Relative methods of population measurement and the derivation of absolute estimates -- 7.1 Factors Affecting the size of Relative Estimates -- 7.2 The uses of Relative Methods -- 7.3 Relative Methods - Catch Per Unit Effort -- 7.4 Relative Methods - Trapping -- 8 Estimates based on products and effects of insects -- 8.1 Products -- 8.2 Effects -- 9 Observational and experimental methods for the estimation of natality, mortality and dispersal -- 9.1 Natality -- 9.2 Mortality -- 9.5 Dispersal -- 10 The Construction, description and analysis of age-specific life-tables -- 10.1 Types of Life-Table and the Budget -- 10.2 The Construction of a Budget -- 10.3 The Description of Budgets and Life-Tables -- 10.4 The Analysis of Life-Table Data -- 11 Age-grouping of insects, time-specific life-tables and predictive population models -- 11.1 Age-Grouping of Insects -- 11.2 Time-Specific Life Table and Survival Rates -- 11.3 Predictive Population Models -- 12 Systems analysis and modelling in ecology -- 12.1 Types of Systems Model -- 12.2 Analysis and Simulation in Models -- 12.3 Deterministic and Stochastic Models -- 12.4 Difference and Differential Models -- 13 Diversity, species packing and habitat description -- 13.1 Diversity -- 13.2 Species Packing -- 13.3 Habitats -- 14 The estimation of productivity and the construction of energy budgets -- 14.1 Estimation of Standing Crop -- 14.2 Estimation of Energy Flow -- 14.3 The Energy Budget, Efficiencies and Transfer Coefficients -- 14.4 Assessment of Energy and Time Cost Strategies -- Author Index -- General Index.
Keywords: Ecology .; Animal systematics; Animal taxonomy; Statistics .; Ecology; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Statistics, general