“Anthropogenic ecology,” the effect of humanity on ecosystems, is an emerging area of influence in ecology and is related to the discipline of conservation ecology, which in turn deals with such issues as ecosystem management for biodiversity, reintroduction of native species, elimination of invasive species and protection of endangered species and ecosystems. While there are…

Ecology is unique among the biological sciences for its dependence on applied statistical techniques from experimental design to data analysis. This is because ecology is a field science and numerous sources of variability effect field-collected data. That is, field data typically have much “noise” and it is essential to apply statistical techniques in order to…