Overall, this volume covers a huge amount of ground from planning and undertaking population research through to analysis and modeling. The text has been brought right up to date and continues to provide students (and more established researchers) with an essential reference on the doing of plant population ecology research.

Autorentext

David Gibson, PhD, is a Fellow of the Society of Biology, and Professor of Plant Biology and University Distinguished Scholar at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.

Klappentext

A user-friendly introduction to the methodology of plant population ecology research.

Zusammenfassung
A user-friendly introduction to the methodology of plant population ecology research.

Inhalt

Part 1 What is plant population ecology?
1: Scope of plant population ecology
Part 2 Planning the study
2: The question and approach
3: Basic considerations in experimental design
Part 3 Doing the study
4: Experimental treatments
5: Measuring individual and population parameters
6: Abiotic and biotic measurements of a plant's environment
7: Planning, choosing, and using statistics
8: Advanced statistical techniques: Spatial patterns, life tables, modelling and population viability analysis