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OCEANOGRAPHY AND MANAGEMENT OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT

BIODIVERSITY ESTIMATION AND CONSERVATION

  • Definition of biodiversity.
  • Importance of measuring biodiversity.
  • Types of biodiversity.
  • Principles of sampling design.
  • Formulation of the zero hypothesis.
  • Sampling schedules in space and time.
  • Selecting of samples and collection methods.
  • Data types – Data transformations.
  • Creating a database.
  • Species-abundance distributions.
  • Patterns of species abundance distribution.
  • Statistical patterns of distribution.
  • Biological patterns of distribution.
  • Standards of Habitat/Resources Division.
  • Parametric and non-parametric methods of estimating the species abundance.
  • Indicators of species abundance.
  • Curves of species accumulation.
  • Taxonomic diversity.
  • Functional diversity.
  • Methods of comparing biodiversity in space and time.
  • Grouping methods.
  • Sorting methods.
  • Methods of linking biotic and abiotic data.