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Resources for graduate students
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GENERAL: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY/ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
Books If your thesis is about behavioral ecology or animal behavior, we strongly encourage you to read the following two books BEFORE posing specific questions: - Krebs, J. R. & N. B. Davies. 1993. An introduction to behavioural ecology. Blackwell Publishers; 3rd edition. ISBN: 0632035463 - Krebs, J. R. & N. B. Davies. 1997. Behavioural ecology: an evolutionary approach. Blackwell Publishers; 4th edition. ISBN: 0865427313
If your work is focused on any aspect of social foraging, this book is a must: - Krause, J. & G.D. Ruxton. 2002. Living in groups. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0198508182
GENERAL: CONSERVATION BIOLOGY Books - Gosling, L.M. & W.J. Sutherland. 2000. Behaviour and Conservation. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0521665396 - Marzluff, J. M., R. Bowman & R. Donnelly. 2001. Avian Ecology and Conservation in an Urbanizing World. Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN: 0792374584 - Norris, K. et al. 2002. Conserving bird biodiversity. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0521789494 - Sutherland, W.J., I. Newton & R. Green. 2004. Bird Ecology and Conservation. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0198520859
STATISTICS Books We place a lot of emphasis on your statistical training BEFORE you start sampling. We strongly encourage that you read as soon as possible the following books, because their concepts will be used during discussions regarding the design of your project and analysis of your data. - Underwood, A.J. 1997. Experiments in Ecology: their logical design and interpretation using analysis of variance. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN: 0521553296 - Grafen, A. & R. Hails. 2002. Modern statistics for the life sciences. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN: 0199252319
Links - This is a website with excellent information on Generalized Linear Models: http://data.princeton.edu/wws509/notes/default.htm - Website on NON-linear regression: http://www.curvefit.com/web_sites.htm
FUNDING RESOURCES - Institutions that fund studies on animal behavior and conservation biology: http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Conservation/ccfunding.html
SEARCHING FOR SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE Please, use Web of Science to search for papers on your thesis topic. This is a serious and thorough source of scientific information. So, please, try to avoid wasting your time googling for this kind of information. |
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