TY - GEN AU - Zuur, Alain AU - Ieno, Elena N. AU - Smith, Graham M. TI - Analysing ecological data/ T2 - Statistics for biology and health SN - 9781441923578 (hbk : alk.paper) : U1 - 577 23 rd PY - 2007/// CY - New York : PB - Springer Science + Business Media, LLC KW - Ecology -- Statistical methods KW - Biology N1 - Includes Index and bibliography N2 - This book provides a practical introduction to analyzing ecological data using real data sets collected as part of postgraduate ecological studies or research projects. The first part of the book gives a largely non-mathematical introduction to data exploration, univariate methods multivariate analysis, time series analysis (e.g. common trends) and spatial statistics. The second part provides 17 case studies, mainly written together with biologists who attended courses given by the first authors. The case studies include topics ranging from terrestrial ecology to marine biology ER -