Marian Stamp Dawkins

Observing Animal Behaviour

Design and Analysis of Quantitive Controls

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book introduces the reader to the importance of observation prior to, and sometimes instead of, experimental manipulation in the study of animal behaviour. It starts with simple and easily accessible methods suitable for student projects, before going on to demonstrate the possibilities that now exist for much more sophisticated analyses of observational data.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 302g
• ISBN-13: 9780198569367
• ISBN-10: 019856936X
• Artikelnr.: 22929664

Autorenporträt

Marian Stamp Dawkins is Fellow and Tutor in Biological Sciences at Somerville College Oxford and Head of the Animal Behaviour Research Group in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK. She is a foremost authority in the field of animal behaviour, widely admired for the clarity of her thinking and writing, and particularly well known for her pioneering work on animal welfare.

Inhaltsangabe

1: The power of observation
2: Asking the right question
3: When all you need is one
4: Three principles of observational design
5: The selective observer
6: Down to detail
7: Observing in zoos, on farms, and in the wild
8: Analysing observations
9: Further observations
10: Observing the Future
Appendix 1: Some random numbers
Appendix 2: Power and sample size
Appendix 3: Beaufort wind scale