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Designing field studies for biodiversity conservation : the nature conservancy
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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Washington, DC :
Island Press,
©2001.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: What's science got to do with it?
- The inquiry process
- So, what's the question?
- Design: matching data collection to the scope of the question
- Small samples and big questions: the role of statistical inference
- Points of view: taking natural history into account
- Contents and context: taking the whole landscape into account
- Indicators versus targets: shortcuts to the landscape's "health"?
- Species diversity: easy to quantify, but what does it mean?
- Extending the reach of inquiry
- Calculating confidence limits for the population mean
- Deciding on sample size
- Resources especially for Latin American readers
- Design and statistics without the jargon: a play in two acts.