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Informationen zum Autor Brian A. Maurer is the author of Geographical Population Analysis: Tools for the Analysis of Biodiversity, published by Wiley. Klappentext Conservation biology has emerged as one of the most important areas of ecology; using concepts from traditional resource management and modern population biology to preserve biological diversity. In order to really understand the problems of decreasing diversity and the solutions to maintaining it, the attention of ecologists must be focussed on larger spatial and temporal scales than they are traditionally used to. The book discusses methods and statistical techniques that can be used to analyze spatial patterns in geographic populations. These techniques incorporate ideas from fractal geometry to develop measures of geographic range fragmentation, and can be used to ask questions regarding the conservation of biodiversity. Zusammenfassung The purpose of this text is to introduce some techniques for dealing with problems such as the description of spatial patterns of populations across continents! the description of the degree of fragmentation of a population and the relationship between population dynamics and population fraction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Geographical population analysis and the conservation of biological diversity; Regionalized variable theory for geographic population analysis; Analysis of geographical range, size, shape and orientation; Analysis of geographical variation in abundance; Geographic population dynamics; The challenges of geographical population analyses
