This is a book about the scientific process and how you apply it to data in ecology. You will learn how to plan for data collection, how to assemble data, how to analyze data and finally how to present the results.
First summary of the foraging ecology and marine lives of penguins
Comparative analysis and summary of the available marine-related literature on penguins
Perspective of penguins as bellwethers of the health of marine ecosystems
Detailed information on all aspects of bat surveying - The Bat Workers' Manual is an essential reference for anyone wishing to obtain a licence to carry out bat work.
The best single-volume guide to the hobby and profession of beekeeping.
A coincise, current and accesible overview of the biology and ecology of running water systems with an emphasis on rivers and streams.
This long-awaited book covers for the first time all aspects of the biology of moult.
Important Characteristics in Identifying Crocodilian Species
50 Years of Exciting Moments in Nature Conservation and Research.
A groundbreaking new perspective on collective behavior across biological systems
This handbook serves to discuss both the benefits and challenges in living with this species, and collates the wide range of techniques that can be implemented to mitigate any negative impacts.
An accessible textbook for undergraduate and graduate students that explores the possible reasons why sex evolved, examines how the differences between males and females arose, and discusses how those differences affect their reproductive strategies.
The Fungi, Third Edition, offers a comprehensive and thoroughly integrated treatment of the biology of the fungi.
The only hair scale identification guide to cover all 25 mammalian carnivores found in Canada.
Practical information on study planning, data handling, automation and manual identification.
The authors believe that the observations and experiments with living marine invertebrate eggs and embryos described in this book will provide inspiration to students for the study of basic processes in embryonic development.
This book reveals the remarkable new history of how passerines diversified and dispersed across the entire world.
This extensively revised and updated second edition features substantial new long-term data on population dynamics, behavioral observations and breeding biology of the Little Owl.
Covers all aspects of this subject, including the migratory process, the problems of navigation and vagrancy, the timing and physiological control of migration, large scale movement patterns and their evolution, the effects of recent climate change etc.
Up-to-date introduction to the classical techniques and modern extensions of linear model analysis.
The Ocean and Us provides an overview of our contemporary understanding of the ocean and all the ways our lives interact with it.
This book presents perspectives on the past and present state of the understanding of snake origins.
The fifth edition of The Physiology of Fishes represents a compendium of knowledge across fish physiology.
The book is organized into sections corresponding to the annual cycle of each taxon.
Charles Perreault shows that archaeology may find a model in the rise of palaeobiology for a shift in the science and theory of the field.
