Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxi
5. 1. INTRODUCTION 1
6. 2. DENSITY: MEAN AND VARIANCE 11
7. 3. NORMAL AND SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS FOR FIELDWORK 22
8. 4. CONFIDENCE LIMITS AND INTERVALS FOR DENSITY 38
9. 5. HOW MANY FIELD SAMPLES? 53
10. 6. SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION: THE POWER CURVE 69
11. 7. FIELD SAMPLING SCHEMES 93
12. 8. SPECIES PROPORTIONS: RELATIVE ABUNDANCES 124
13. 9. SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS 164
14. 10. REGRESSION: OCCURRENCES AND DENSITY 216
15. 11. SPECIES OCCURRENCES 240
16. 12. SPECIES DIVERSITY: THE NUMBER OF SPECIES 255
17. 13. BIODIVERSITY: DIVERSITY INDICES USING N AND S 284
18. 14. BIODIVERSITY: DIVERSITY MEASURES USING RELATIVE ABUNDANCES 297
19. 15. BIODIVERSITY: DOMINANCE AND EVENNESS 320
20. 16. BIODIVERSITY: UNIFYING DIVERSITY AND EVENNESS MEASURES WITH CANONICAL EQUATIONS 337
21. 17. BIODIVERSITY: SHE ANALYSIS AS THE ULTIMATE UNIFICATION THEORY OF BIODIVERSITY WITH THE COMPLETE BIODIVERSITYGRAM 342
22. 18. BIODIVERSITY: SHE ANALYSIS FOR COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IDENTIFICATION, SHECSI 354
23. APPENDIX 383
24. REFERENCES 555
25. INDEX 563