Ecological Methods With Particular Reference to the Study of Insect Populations /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
1978.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. 1978. |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1225-0 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.