Field and laboratory exercises in ecology [Ouvrage] /
S.D. Wratten . -
Londres : Arnold, 1980 . - 227 p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN : 978-0-7131-2725-6
Langues : Anglais (
eng)
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[Motbis 2025] écologie [Motbis 2025] patrimoine génétique [Motbis 2025] population
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1ère PARTIE : Sampling
The number of sampling units
The effects of quadrat size
Quantitative measure of vegetation
Mark-recapture techniques for estimating the density of an animal population
2ème PARTIE : Spatial pattern
Taylor's power law
Nearest neighbour techniques
The detection of pattern : comparison with the poisson distribution
Determination of the scale of pattern
The detection of directional pattern
3ème PARTIE : Populations
Time specific life tables
Morphological variation
Self crowding effects in plants
Intraspecific competition in aphids
Insect flight
Host plant finding and recognition in insects
4ème PARTIE : Population interactions
Responses of predators to changes in the numbers of their prey
Interspecific competition in crustacea
Herbivore grazing as a factor in plant competition
Allelopathy
Batesian mimicry
Camouflage and apostatic selection
5ème PARTIE : Community analysis
Diversity
Distribution and abundance of organisms in time and space
Detection of mortality in populations of a leafmining moth and a snail
Ordination
Classification of vegetation
The ecology of plant-herbivore relationships |