Ecological Methods

Work with a Palm Computer

Computer programs for data collection and analysis.

A quick tutorial on using Excel is here

Determining Population Size

• Mark and recapture techniques
• Catch per unit effort.
• Absolute sampling vs. relative
• Sweep netting and types of nets
• Line transect
• Quadrate Sampling
• Litter Sampling
• Sticky traps and Insect Trapping Basics
• Product estimates: Owl pellets
• Pitfall Traps
• Sampling Sedentary Organisms

Methods for Measuring Distribution and Dispersion

• Spatial Distributions

Diversity and species packing

• Species diversity
• Similarity analysis

Life Tables and Age Distributions

• Life Table Basics

Microbiological Techniques

• Methods in Soil Microbial Ecology
• Soil Microbial Lab manual

Water Testing

• EZ water quality tests
• Plankton Net How to make a plankton net
• Picture gallery of Protists for Identification of some common genera
• Fake water
• Link to EPA Drinking Water Contaminants WEB PAGE

Soil Testing

• How to take a good soil sample
• Measuring soil pH

Insects and other Creepy-Crawly Stuff

• Butterfly Field Guide
• Insect & Spider Field Guide

Birds

• Intro is here
• National Audubon Society
• Birds of Indiana
• On-line Field Guide

Fish, Amphibians, & Reptiles

• Catch per unit effort.
• Reptile & Amphibian On-Line Field Guide
• Fake water

Plant Stuff

• Weed Identification
• Sampling Sedentary Organisms
• Quadrate Sampling
• Tree Field Guide
• An even better field guide can be found HERE
• Wild Flower Field Guide

Small Mammals

• Mammal Field Guide

Ecology

• Home Range Estimation
• Behavioral Ecology Text

Physiological Ecology

• Responses to abiotic factors (Plants)
• Chemical Ecology
• Fake water

Assorted Stuff

• Integrated Pest Management Info and Techniques
• Ecological Society of America
• Ecology and Biodiversity
• Microbial Ecology
• National Weather Service @ Louisville, KY
• Louisville Hourly Summary
• Local Beasts 
• Chemical Ecology
• Palm tools for data analysis and collection.
• Fake water
• Free Climate Model from NASA

Statistical Techniques

• Computer programs for data collection and analysis.
• Introduction to Stata
• Stata Tutorial (Very Good!)
• PDF format Introduction to Stata
• Some Stata Resources
• Krebs Win (Cluster analysis, distance analysis, Mark & Recapture, Line Transect and MORE)
• Sampling from an Aerial Photograph
• Natural Resource Sampling