Practical Field Ecology: A Project Guide Practical Field
Ecology: A Project Guide introduces experimental design and data
analysis / interpretation as well as field monitoring skills for
both plants and animals. Clearly structured throughout and
written in a student-friendly manner, the main emphasis of
Practical Field Ecology: A Project Guide concentrates on the
techniques required to design a field based ecological survey
and shows how to execute an appropriate sampling regime.
Practical Field Ecology: A Project Guide evaluates appropriate
methods, including the problems associated with various
techniques and their inherent flaws (e.g. low sample sizes,
large amount of field or laboratory work, high cost etc). This
provides a resource base outlining details from the planning
stage, into the field, guiding through sampling and finally
through organism identification in the laboratory and computer
based data analysis and interpretation. The text is divided into
six distinct chapters. The first chapter covers