TY  - BOOK
AU  - Feinsinger,Peter
ED  - Nature Conservancy (U.S.) 
TI  - Designing field studies for biodiversity conservation: The nature conservancy
SN  - 1559638788
U1  - 333.95 20
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - Island Press
KW  - Conservación de la biodiversidad
KW  - Conservación de la diversidad biológica
KW  - Conservación de la naturaleza (EE. UU.)
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices; 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
ER  -