Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments

by Scheiner; Sam

• ISBN13: 9780412035616
• ISBN10: 0412035618
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-11
• Publisher: Chapman & Hall/

Summary

The goal of this book is to make some underutilized but potentially very useful methods in experimental design and analysis available to ecologists, and to encourage better use of standard statistical techniques. Ecology has become more and more an experimental science in both basic and applied work,but experiments in the field and in the laboratory often present formidable statistical difficulties. Organized around providing solutions to ecological problems, this book offers ways to improve the statistical aspects of conducting manipulative ecological experiments, from setting them up to interpreting and reporting the results. An abundance of tools, including advanced approaches, are made available to ecologists in step-by-step examples, with computer code provided for common statistical packages. This is an essential how-to guide for the working ecologist and for graduate students preparing for research and teaching careers in the field of ecology.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Contributors	xiii
Introduction: Theories, hypotheses, and statistics	1	(13)
Samuel M. Scheiner
Exploratory data analysis and graphic display	14	(32)
Aaron M. Ellison
ANOVA: Experiments in controlled environments	46	(23)
Catherine Potvin
ANOVA and ANCOVA: Field competition experiments	69	(25)
Deborah E. Goldberg
Samuel M. Scheiner
MANOVA: Multiple response variables and multispecies interactions	94	(19)
Samuel M. Scheiner
Repeated-measures analysis: Growth and other time-dependent measures	113	(25)
Carl N. von Ende
Time-series intervention analysis: Unreplicated large-scale experiments	138	(21)
Paul W. Rasmussen
Dennis M. Heisey
Erik V. Nordheim
Thomas M. Frost
Nonlinear curve fitting: Predation and functional response curves	159	(24)
Steven A. Juliano
Multiple regression: Herbivory	183	(28)
Thomas E. Philippi
Path analysis: Pollination	211	(21)
Randall J. Mitchell
Population sampling and bootstrapping in complex designs: Demographic analysis	232	(21)
Mark A. McPeek
Susan Kalisz
Failure-time analysis: Emergence, flowering, survivorship, and other waiting times	253	(37)
Gordon A. Fox
The bootstrap and the jackknife: Describing the precision of ecological indices	290	(29)
Philip M. Dixon
Spatial statistics: Analysis of field experiments	319	(23)
Jay M. Ver Hoef
Noel Cressie
Mantel tests: Spatial structure in field experiments	342	(18)
Marie-Josee Fortin
Jessica Gurevitch
Model validation: Optimal foraging theory	360	(18)
Joel S. Brown
Meta-analysis: Combining the results of independent experiments	378	(21)
Jessica Gurevitch
Larry V. Hedges
References	399	(28)
Author index	427	(8)
Subject index	435