How to Do Ecology provides nuts-and-bolts advice on organizing and conducting a successful research program. This one-of-a-kind book explains how to choose a research question and answer it through manipulative experiments and systematic observations.

Table of Contents

• Illustrations
• Boxes
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Introduction: The Aims of This Book
• Chapter 1. Picking a Question
• Chapter 2. Posing Questions (or Picking an Approach)
• Chapter 3. Using Experiments to Test Hypotheses
• Chapter 4. Analyzing Experimental Data
• Chapter 5. Using Surveys to Explore Patterns
• Chapter 6. Building Your Indoor Skills
• Chapter 7. Working with People and Getting a Job in Ecology
• Chapter 8. Communicating What You Find
• Chapter 9. Conclusions
• Acknowledgments
• References