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1 Chapter 1Table 1.1 Example timescales for a short research project.Table 1.2 Random numbers. Coordinates can be extracted simply by taking pairs...Table 1.3 Common statistical tests. Note that in each case, there are possibl...

2 Chapter 2Table 2.1 Common factors influencing living organisms.Table 2.2 Types of bioindicators for monitoring environmental conditions.Table 2.3 Range of taxa used as bioindicators.Table 2.4 Major taxonomic groups.Table 2.5 Major divisions of the Raunkiær plant life‐form system.

3 Chapter 3Table 3.1 DAFOR, Braun–Blanquet, and Domin scales for vegetation cover.Table 3.2 Abundance (ESACFORN) scales for littoral species.Table 3.3 Recommended quadrat sizes for various organisms.

4 Chapter 4Table 4.1 Some considerations in the choice of radio‐tracking equipment.Table 4.2 Summary of killing and preservation techniques for commonly studied...Table 4.3 Factors to consider when using pitfall traps.Table 4.4 Examples of baits and target insect groups.Table 4.5 Factors to consider when choosing light traps to collect moths.Table 4.6 Summary of different types of net.Table 4.7 Example of timed species counts. Using 12 surveys, each of 1 hour (...Table 4.8 Comparison of bat detector systems.

5 Chapter 5Table 5.1 Abundance of invertebrates in ponds. Percentages in parentheses may...Table 5.2 Summary of commonly used methods of population estimation based on ...Table 5.3 Common diversity and evenness indices.Table 5.4 Commonly used similarity measures.Table 5.5 Statistics that should be reported for difference tests. These are ...Table 5.6 Statistics that should be reported for relationship tests. These ar...Table 5.7 Statistics that should be recorded for tests used to examine associ...Table 5.8 Using dummy variables. Example of how two dummy variables (large/no...Table 5.9 A spider indicator species analysis. The respective overall indicat...Table 5.10 Types of stress measure for computing MDS solutions.

6 Chapter 6Table 6.1 Mean number of individuals^a) of invertebrate orders found in pollut...Table 6.2 Uses of different types of graphs.Table 6.3 Examples of words used unnecessarily when qualifying terms.Table 6.4 SI units of measurement. To standardise the units in which measurem...Table 6.5 Conventions for the use of abbreviations.Table 6.6 Examples of Latin and foreign words and their emphasis.