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9780387459677

Analysing Ecological Data

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  • ISBN13:

    9780387459677

  • ISBN10:

    0387459677

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-05-07
  • Publisher: Springer Verlag
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Summary

This book provides a practical introduction to analysing ecological data using real data sets collected as part of postgraduate ecological studies or research projects.The first part of the book gives a largely non-mathematical introduction to data exploration, univariate methods (including GAM and mixed modelling techniques), multivariate analysis, time series analysis (e.g. common trends) and spatial statistics. The second part provides 17 case studies, mainly written together with biologists who attended courses given by the first authors. The case studies include topics ranging from terrestrial ecology to marine biology. The case studies can be used as a template for your own data analysis; just try to find a case study that matches your own ecological questions and data structure, and use this as starting point for you own analysis. Data from all case studies are available from www.highstat.com. Guidance on software is provided in Chapter 2.

Author Biography

Grad students, researchers

Table of Contents

Introduction
Data management and software
Advice for teachers
Exploration
Linear regression
Generalised linear modelling
Additive and generalised additive modelling
Introduction to mixed modelling
Univariate tree models
Measures of association
Ordination--first encounter
Principal component analysis and redundancy analysis
Correspondence analysis and canonical correspondence analysis
Introduction to discriminant analysis
Principal coordinate analysis and non-metric multidimensional scaling
Time series analysis--Introduction
Common trends and sudden changes
Analysis and modelling lattice data
Spatially continuous data analysis and modelling
Univariate methods to analyse abundance of decapod larvae
Analysing presence and absence data for flatfish distribution in the Tagus estuary, Portugual
Crop pollination by honeybees in an Argentinean pampas system using additive mixed modelling
Investigating the effects of rice farming on aquatic birds with mixed modelling
Classification trees and radar detection of birds for North Sea wind farms
Fish stock identification through neural network analysis of parasite fauna
Monitoring for change: using generalised least squares, nonmetric multidimensional scaling, and the Mantel test on western Montana grasslands
Univariate and multivariate analysis applied on a Dutch sandy beach community
Multivariate analyses of South-American zoobenthic species--spoilt for choice
Principal component analysis applied to harbour porpoise fatty acid data
Multivariate analysis of morphometric turtle data--size and shape
Redundancy analysis and additive modelling applied on savanna tree data
Canonical correspondence analysis of lowland pasture vegetation in the humid tropics of Mexico
Estimating common trends in Portuguese fisheries landings
Common trends in demersal communities on the Newfoundland-Labrador Shelf
Sea level change and salt marshes in the Wadden Sea: a time series analysis
Time series analysis of Hawaiian waterbirds
Spatial modelling of forest community features in the Volzhsko-Kamsky reserve
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