Anne E. Magurran

eBook, PDF

Measuring Biological Diversity (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

This accessible and timely book provides a comprehensive overview of how to measure biodiversity. The book highlights new developments, including innovative approaches to measuring taxonomic distinctness and estimating species richness, and evaluates these alongside traditional methods such as species abundance distributions, and diversity and evenness statistics.

• Helps the reader quantify and interpret patterns of ecological diversity, focusing on the measurement and estimation of species richness and abundance.
• Explores the concept of ecological diversity, bringing new perspectives to a field beset by contradictory views and advice.
• Discussion spans issues such as the meaning of community in the context of ecological diversity, scales of diversity and distribution of diversity among taxa
• Highlights advances in measurement paying particular attention to new techniques such as species richness estimation, application of measures of diversity to conservation and environmental management and addressing sampling issues
• Includes worked examples of key methods in helping people to understand the techniques and use available computer packages more effectively

Technische Details

• Geräte: PC
• mit Kopierschutz

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Anne E. Magurran is Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of St Andrews. She is interested in the measurement, evolution, and conservation of biological diversity. Her research is focused on the behavior and ecology of freshwater fish in the neotropics (the Brazilian Amazon, Trinidad, and Mexico) and in Britain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444311532
• Artikelnr.: 38308911

Rezensionen

"It is a blessing that the book has been rewritten, as it saves usfrom scouring second-hand bookshops; it was a text that wasborrowed from libraries and disappeared...Anne Magurran, whileproviding an invaluable practical handbook, also explainsdifficulties in a very readable style...But this book is not justrecommended to working ecologists - it is essential." TonyAndrew, University of Ulster, Times Higher Education Supplement,March 2004

"To ecologists and conservation biologists who work withbiodiversity, for more than a decade the name 'Magurran' has meantan essential little book on measuring biodiversity EcologicalDiversity and Its Measurement, 1988.

Now Anne Magurran has written a thorough update MeasuringBiological

Diversity, considerably expanded to cover importantnew developments in the field, including richness estimation, newrelative abundance models, and new ways to compare assemblagecomposition. Throughout, examples from the primary literature areused to illustrate concepts and methods and key methods arepresented as worked examples in an appendix. And as before, the newbook shines with a blessedly welcome readability, excellentscholarship and plain good sense. Magurran does not shrink frommaking tough judgments and recommendations that go against'tradition' in this field.

I expect the 'new Magurran' to become an essential reference onresearchers' bookshelves and required reading for advanced studentsin biodiversity studies. " Professor Robert Colwell, Universityof Connecticut.

"The book provides a useful and in-depth review of statisticaland measurement issues related to biological diversity...It will bea useful reference book and educational tool for years to come forthose interested in the measurement of biological diversity."Ecology, December 2004

"This is obviously a finely-crafted book...It will be anindispensable guide for any researcher engaged in measuring speciesdiversity or in comparing the richness of different speciesassemblages. It is, above all, a practical book, clearly laid out,with concise descriptions and worked examples." African Journalof Aquatic Science, June 2005