Attempts by ecologists to establish models for predicting the growth of
a population or the fluctuations of a natural resource can be confounded
by environmental heterogeneity. Spatio-Temporal Heterogeneity explores a
range of available statistical methods to help ecologists in the attempt
to unravel complexities, demonstrating how to place these changes into
an understandable statistical framework. It addresses several key
questions, including how to interpret the parameters of statistical
models in relation to the biological and environmental realities, how to
design a study to collect the best sample data and how to avoid pitfalls
in modelling, design, statistical assessment and interpretation.
Dutilleul uses a variety of examples to facilitate understanding, from
plant ecology, earth and atmospheric sciences, animal biology, forestry
and limnology. The accompanying CD-ROM contains MATLAB and SAS codes to
aid analyses.