Design and analysis of ecological experiments

Contents; Contributors; 1 Theories, Hypotheses, and Statistics; 2 Power Analysis and Experimental Design; 3 Exploratory Data Analysis and Graphic Display; 4 ANOVA: Experimental Layout and Analysis; 5 ANOVA and ANCOVA: Field Competition Experiments; 6 MANOVA: Multiple Response Variables and Multispecies Interactions; 7 ANCOVA: Nonparametric and Randomization Approaches; 8 Repeated-measures Analysis: Growth and Other Time-dependent Measures; 9 Time Series Intervention Analysis: Unreplicated Large-scale Experiments; 10 Nonlinear Curve Fitting: Predation and Functional Response Curves; 11 Logit Modeling and Logistic Regression: Aphids, Ants, and Plants12 Path Analysis: Pollination; 13 Failure-time Analysis: Studying Times to Events and Rates at Which Events Occur; 14 The Bootstrap and the Jackknife: Describing the Precision of Ecological Indices; 15 Spatial Statistics: Analysis of Field Experiments; 16 Mantel Tests: Spatial Structure in Field Experiments; 17 Bayesian Statistics: Estimating Plant Demographic Parameters; 18 Meta-analysis: Combining the Results of Independent Experiments; References; Index