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A user-friendly primer to the essential techniques of quantitative field ecology, or paleoecology, integrating the intuitive approach of the field researcher with the rational analytical tools of the statistician. Designed as a comprehensive introduction and handy methodological reference for students and professionals alike, this book is filled with lucid explanations, real-world examples, practice problem sets, more than one hundred illustrations and tables, and many applications to research issues of current concern.

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The authors have written [this book] specifically for ecologists and are using concrete ecological problems to demonstrate which sampling design should be favored and in which circumstance... If you have been buying several statistical and sampling design books with the feeling that you still don't get it, then this book on surveying natural populations is for you... It reads almost like a novel in comparison to normal statistical books. -- Ecoscience [A]ll will appreciate the blend of insight, pragmatism, and even dry humor that Hayek and Buzas have to offer. Surveying Natural Populations is a welcome, noteworthy contribution to the ecology, conservation, and biostatistical literature. -- Erica Fleishman, Ecology A timely, valuable, and important contribution to the literature on quantitative ecology, conservation, wildlife management, and palaeoecology. I strongly recommend it to all quantitative ecologists and palaeoecologists. -- H.J.B. Birks, Earth-Science Reviews

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Lee-Ann C. Hayek is Chief Mathematical Statistician of the Smithsonian Institution. Martin A. Buzas is Curator of Foraminifera and Senior Geologist in the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum.

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