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Introduction: What's science got to do with it? -- The inquiry process.-- So, what's the question? -- Design: matching data collection to the scope of the question.-- Small samples and big questions: the role of statistical inference.-- Points of view: taking natural history into account.-- Contents and context: taking the whole landscape into account.-- Indicators versus targets: shortcuts to the landscape's "health"? -- Species diversity: easy to quantify, but what does it mean? -- Extending the reach of inquiry.-- Calculating confidence limits for the population mean.--Deciding on sample size.-- Resources especially for Latin American readers.-- Design and statistics without the jargon: a play in two acts