Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 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"? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- Amphibian diversity and natural history: an overview -- Essentials of standardization and quantification -- Research design for quantitative amphibian studies -- Keys to a successful project: associated data and planning -- Standard techniques for inventory and monitoring -- Supplemental approaches to studying amphibian biodiversity -- Estimating population size -- Analysis of amphibian biodiversity data -- Conclusion and recommendations -- Handling live amphibians -- Techniques for marking amphibians -- Recording frog calls -- Preparing amphibians as scientific specimens -- Collecting tissue for biochemical analysis -- Vendors -- Table of random numbers.…”