Nowadays, ecologists worldwide recognize the use of spatial analysis as essential.
However, because of the fast-growing range of methods available, even an expert might …

Spatial Data Analysis: Theory and Practice, first published in 2003, provides a broad ranging
treatment of the field of spatial data analysis. It begins with an overview of spatial data …

I draw attention to the need for ecologists to take spatial structure into account more
seriously in hypothesis testing. If spatial autocorrelation is ignored, as it usually is, then …

Key features: Unique in its combination of serving as an introduction to spatial statistics and
to modeling agricultural and ecological data using R Provides exercises in each chapter to …

Efforts to design monitoring regimes capable of detecting population trends can be thwarted
by observational and economic constraints inherent to most biological surveys. Ensuring …

The earliest examples of alternative community states in the literature appear to be
descriptions of natural vegetation said to both depend on and promote fire. Nonetheless …

Owens et al. 1 have recently reviewed the importance of imprinting as a mechanism of
sexual selection. They paid less attention to how the evolutionary consequences of …

Background The flat-headed cat (Prionailurus planiceps) is one of the world's least known,
highly threatened felids with a distribution restricted to tropical lowland rainforests in …

1. We tested the species diversity–energy hypothesis using the British bird fauna. This
predicts that temperature patterns should match diversity patterns. We also tested the …

A test statistic for the detection of spatial clusters is developed by generalizing the common
chi‐square goodness‐of‐fit test. The paper includes a discussion of the relationship …