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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816843403321

Autore

Maurer Brian A

Titolo

Geographical population analysis : tools for the analysis of biodiversity / / Brian A. Maurer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Boston, : Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1994

ISBN

1-282-23728-4

9786612237287

1-4443-1392-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (142 p.)

Collana

Methods in ecology

Disciplina

304.6

574.5248

Soggetti

Population biology

Biogeography

Biodiversity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-123) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Geographical Population Analysis: Tools for the Analysis of Biodiversity; Contents; The Methods In Ecology Series; Preface; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1: Geographical population analysis and the conservation of biological diversity; CHAPTER 2: Regionalized variable theory for geographical population analysis; CHAPTER 3: Analysis of geographical range size, shape and orientation; CHAPTER 4: Analysis of geographical variation in abundance; CHAPTER 5: Geographical population dynamics; CHAPTER 6: The challenges of geographical population analysis; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Conservation biology -- using concepts from traditional resource management and modern population biology to preserve biological diversity -- has emerged as one of the most important areas of ecology In order to really understand the problems of decreasing diversity and the solutions to maintaining it, the attention of ecologists must be focused on larger spatial and temporal scales than they are used to. The book discusses methods and statistical techniques that can be used to analyze spatial patterns in geographic populations. These techniques incorporate ideas from fractal geometry to devel