Ecological Methods

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This book, whose First Edition one receiver called the ecologists' 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 its scope has now been explicitly extended to all macroscopic animals, particular attention being paid to fish as well as other vertebrates.It provides a unique synthesis of the methods and techniques that are 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 reviewed.

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Excellent resource for biologists
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Research Techniques in Animal Ecology

Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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ASIN: 0231113412

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The present biodiversity crisis is rife with opportunities to make important conservation decisions; however, the misuse or misapplication of the methods and techniques of animal ecology can have serious consequences for the survival of species. Still, there have been relatively few critical reviews of methodology in the field. This book provides an analysis of some of the most frequently used research techniques in animal ecology, identifying their limitations and misuses, as well as possible solutions to avoid such pitfalls. In the process, contributors to this volume present new perspectives on the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data.

Research Techniques in Animal Ecology is an overarching account of central theoretical and methodological controversies in the field, rather than a handbook on the minutiae of techniques. The editors have forged comprehensive presentations of key topics in animal ecology, such as territory and home range estimates, habitation evaluation, population viability analysis, GIS mapping, and measuring the dynamics of societies. Striking a careful balance, each chapter begins by assessing the shortcomings and misapplications of the techniques in question, followed by a thorough review of the current literature, and concluding with possible solutions and suggested guidelines for more robust investigations.

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Excellent resource for biologists.......2007-05-13

I bought this book for a class on techniques in vertebrate ecology (graduate school course). This book gives an excellent overview of sampling techniques, marking methods, population viability analysis, population demography, predator/prey relationships, etc. Several of the chapters are rather technical - discussing in depth the calculus and/or statistical equations used for some analyses. If you plan to work in field biology, this is a great handbook and provides valuable information and will be helpful for setting up and conducting your own studies in the field.

Very useful information for ecology students.......2001-02-20

This edited volume is comprised of 11 chapters that deal with a variety of the methods used to obtain and analyze ecological data pertaining to animals. Because each chapter is written by a different author, the chapters vary in style and level of detail. The book starts with a very broad treatment of hypothesis testing and then proceeds to outline such techniques as marking vertebrates for mark-recapture studies, calculating home range size, measuring habitat selection and use, assessing vertebrate food habits and diet, measuring population sizes (a chapter I would have placed earlier in the book), detecting density dependent population change, modeling predator-prey dynamics, performing population viability analysis, measuring animal behaviors, and modeling species distributions using a Geographic Information System. The chapters on habitat selection and PVA were especially well-written. The book differs from Krebs' classic "Ecological Methodology" in that it spends far less time on statistical modeling and far more time reviewing the pros and cons of technqiues that are found in every ecologist's toolbox.

The book has a distinctly vertebrate bias, making it not as useful as one might hope for those biologists like myself who study the other 99% of Kingdom Animalia. Even so, however, some of the techniques are directly transferrable to studies on invertebrates (and plants as well).

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As the stream of hi-tech drugs continues to multiply and a huge number of animals are used in medical experiments, debate continues about reliable methods for biomedical research and their adequacy in protecting human health from new products and procedures. In this book, a leading Italian medical researcher concludes, after years of himself practicing animal experimentation and vivisection, that the traditional reliance on these techniques is scientifically misplaced. Now available in a completely revised and updated English edition, Dr. Croce's classic work constitutes a powerful argument. He documents with a wealth of fascinating detail precisely how the scientific anti-vivisection movement has constructed a rational case, as opposed to a sentimental or ethical argument. He highlights the increasing dangers to human health resulting from the animal experimenters' assumption that the biological systems of humans and other species are sufficiently similar for valid biomedical comparison. And for the medical researcher, he provides an introduction to the range of alternative methods, including epidemiological research, computer simulation and in vitro techniques.

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Irrefutable Proof That Vivisection Does Not And Can Not Work.......2000-02-01

Taking the much needed and long awaited leap across the philosophical quagmire, the distinguished physician and professor Pietro Croce objectively refutes -- not merely rebuts -- the archaic yet blindly accepted dictum that animal experimentation, or vivisection, has benefited humankind or has advanced medical progress and practise. Croce provides, in accessible explanations, all the factual, proven evidence necessary to expose vivisection as an outright scientific fraud, an inherently flawed and erroneous methodology, based on false premises and illogical reasoning. This book incontrovertibly demonstrates both how and why vivisection is a tragic medical and scientific failure that harms, not helps, both persons and animals alike, and debunks all claims to the contrary as so much smoke and mirrors. Proceeding a step further, Croce shows that vivisection, being bad science, has compromised rather than contributed to medical knowledge and understanding, resulting in the diametrical opposite of what proponents of animal experimentation espouse. One myth after another is dispelled, clearly and calmly, until vivisection is laid bare as the regressive failure it is and always has been. Finally, the book reveals exactly and precisely what constitutes legitimate and genuinely scientific biomedical research, study and enquiry, and how these and only these have brought about all that is of value in medicine. Charted is a detailed and rational course to pursue now and in future for the betterment of all humankind, absent from which is experimenting upon animals.

Anesthesia and Analgesia in Laboratory Animals (American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine Series)

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Anesthesia and Analgesia in Laboratory Animals (American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine Series)

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ASIN: 0124175708

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Anesthesia and Analgesia in Laboratory Animals focuses entirely on the special anesthetic, analgesic, and postoperative care requirements associated with experimental surgery. Sponsored by the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine, this informative work provides the reader with agents, methods, and techniques for anesthesia and analgesia that ensure humane and successful procedural outcomes.

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* Focuses on a wide variety of animal species used in research
* Provides a comprehensive overview of the pharmacology of anesthetics and analgesics
* Includes monitoring of analgesia and anesthesia
* Organizes topics by species for agents and methods of providing anesthesia, analgesia, and post-op care to animals
* No other American text is devoted entirely to this topic

Antarctic Seals: Research Methods and Techniques (Studies in Polar Research)

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Antarctic Seals: Research Methods and Techniques (Studies in Polar Research)

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ASIN: 0521443024

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This book describes the methods and procedures for field studies of the population ecology of seals in order to gather basic scientific information and to assist in conservation efforts. The papers in this book make specific recommendations for estimating population sizes, for studying their behavior on land and at sea, and for immobilizing, capturing, marking, and, where necessary, humanely killing seals in order to study physiology, diet, bioenergetics, and make age determinations.

Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area

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Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area
Norman F. Cheville and Dale R. McCullough , Principal Investigators , Lee R. Paulson , Project Director , and National Research Council
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A Manual of Wildlife Radio Tagging (Biological Techniques)

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A Manual of Wildlife Radio Tagging (Biological Techniques)
Robert E. Kenward
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ASIN: 0124042422

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Retaining the introductory flavor of the now classic First Edition, this revision includes all the latest techniques in the field. New information on methods of radio tag harnessing, new sections on satellite tracking techniques and new types of data analysis are all included. Still the only comprehensive, up-to-date, introduction to this fundamental technique for wildlife and behavioral biologists.

* A unique guide to the subject
* Full coverage of the very latest techniques in both terrestrial and satellite tracking
* Detailed, practical guidance in how to fit tags, track animals, source and evaluate equipments and techniques and analyse resulting data

Multivariate Statistics for Wildlife and Ecology Research

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A good introduction to multivariate statistics
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Multivariate Statistics for Wildlife and Ecology Research
Kevin McGarigal , Sam Cushman , and Susan Stafford
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ASIN: 0387988912

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Wildlife researchers and ecologists make widespread use of multivariate statistics in their studies. With its focus on the practical application of the techniques of multivariate statistics, this book shapes the powerful tools of statistics for the specific needs of ecologists and makes statistics more applicable to their course of study. Multivariate Statistics for Wildlife and Ecology Research gives the reader a solid conceptual understanding of the role of multivariate statistics in ecological applications and the relationships among various techniques, while avoiding detailed mathematics and underlying theory. More important, the reader will gain insight into the type of research questions best handled by each technique and the important considerations in applying each one. Whether used as a textbook for specialized courses or as a supplement to general statistics texts, the book emphasizes those techniques that students of ecology and natural resources most need to understand and employ in their research. Detailed examples use real wildlife data sets analyzed using the SAS statistical software program. The book is specifically targeted for upper-division and graduate students in wildlife biology, forestry, and ecology, and for professional wildlife scientists and natural resource managers, but it will be valuable to researchers in any of the biological sciences.

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A good introduction to multivariate statistics.......2007-01-26

This book is fairly easy to understand, even with little knowledge of multivariate statistics. The author uses specific examples relevant to ecological fields and does not focus on theory (which is a rarity in statistical manuals). It is, however, starting to get a bit outdated with some of the techniques gaining favor in the literature recently.

grad students.......2002-04-01

I am an ecology grad student and I have returned to this text again and again.

Opportunities, Use, and Transfer of Systems Research Methods in Agriculture to Developing Countries (System Approaches for Sustainable Agricultural Development)

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Opportunities, Use, and Transfer of Systems Research Methods in Agriculture to Developing Countries (System Approaches for Sustainable Agricultural Development)

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Although the application of systems approaches in agricultural research and natural resource management is a rather new field, there is already increasing demand for implementation of these approaches. This will require a critical mass of specialists in national agricultural research systems and international agricultural research centers. While these institutions are setting themselves up for systems research, the experience that has been gained in this area needs to be evaluated, further possibilities need to be explored, and new objectives and targets need to be set.
This book contains the papers of a three-day seminar on systems approaches and modelling for agricultural development. The seminar, which was held at ISNAR and co-organized by ICASA, was attended by participants from twelve national agricultural research systems, nine international agricultural research centers, and five advanced research organizations. In 24 chapters the book assesses the state of the art of systems approaches in agricultural research, resource management, and rural planning, and gives an impression of the evolution of this interdisciplinary field and its use.

Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals: Great Britain 2004

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Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals: Great Britain 2004

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