With Particular Reference to the Study of Insect Populations /
First Statement of Responsibility
by T. R. E. Southwood.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Dordrecht :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Imprint: Springer,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1978.
CONTENTS NOTE
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to the Study of Animal Populations -- The Sampling Programme and the Measurement and Description of Dispersion -- Absolute Population Estimates using Marking Techniques -- Absolute Population Estimates by Sampling a Unit of Habitat - Air, Plants, Plant Products and Vertebrate Hosts -- Absolute Population Estimates by Sampling a Unit of Habitat - Soil and Litter -- Absolute Population Estimates by Sampling a Unit of Habitat - Freshwater Habitats -- Relative Methods of Population Measurement and the Derivation of Absolute Estimates -- Estimates based on Products and Effects of Insects -- Observational and Experimental Methods for the Estimation of Natality, Mortality and Dispersal -- The Construction, Description and Analysis of Age-specific Life-tables -- Age-grouping of Insects, Time-specific Life-tables and Predictive Population Models -- Systems Analysis and Modelling in Ecology -- Diversity, Species Packing and Habitat Description -- The Estimation of Productivity and the Construction of Energy Budgets.