Safe locomotion is a crucial aspect of human daily living that requires well-functioning motor
control processes. The human neuromotor control of daily activities such as walking relies …

Ecological studies typically involve comparison of biological responses among a variety of
environmental conditions. When the response variables have continuous distributions and …

The central aims of many host or environmental microbiome studies are to elucidate factors
associated with microbial community compositions and to relate microbial features to …

Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) An essential textbook for any student or
researcher in biology needing to design experiments, sampling programs or analyse the …

Autocorrelation is a very general statistical property of ecological variables observed across
geographic space; it most common forms are patches and gradients. Spatial autocorrelation …

Distance correlation is a new measure of dependence between random vectors. Distance
covariance and distance correlation are analogous to product-moment covariance and …

The hippocampus and the amygdala are essential components of the neural circuitry
mediating stress responses. The hippocampus, which provides negative feedback …

The composition of nematode communities (plant-parasitic and free-living) may be used as
bioindicators of soil health or condition because composition correlates well with nitrogen …

Ecological research and the way that ecologists use statistics continues to change rapidly.
This second edition of the best-selling Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments leads …

Habitat selection is a crucial process in the life cycle of animals because it can affect most
components of fitness. It has been proposed that some animals cue on the reproductive …