Hi Ecolog Folks,
I want to thank everyone who took the time to respond to my email about a good methods book. I summarized the suggestions in the list below: All the best, Juan Methods books: 1. A Handbook of Biological Investigation combined with Statistics for the Terrified Biologist 2. Experimental design in the life sciences (Ruxton & Colegrave) Oxford 3. Choosing and Using Statistics-A Biologist's Guide (Dytham) Wiley-Blackwell 4. Methods in Comparative Plant Population Ecology http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LifeSciences/Botany/?view=usa <http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LifeSciences/Botany/?view=usa &ci=9780198505624> &ci=9780198505624 5. Martin P, Bateson PPG. 2007. Measuring Behaviour. 3rd edition. Cambridge University Press. 6. Lehner PN. 1996. Handbook of Ethological Methods. 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press. 7. Ruxton & Colegrave (focussed on how to design the experiment itself) 8. Barnard et al. is better on the scientific process and the importance of asking the right questions before (and after) obtaining the data 9. Cox 1958 Planning of experiments. A gem. 10. Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments Samuel Schiner... 11. Experimental Design and Data Analysis for Biologists ( <http://www.amazon.ca/s?_encoding=UTF8&search-alias=books-ca&field-author=Ge rry%20P.%20Quinn> Gerry P. Quinn, <http://www.amazon.ca/s?_encoding=UTF8&search-alias=books-ca&field-author=Mi chael%20J.%20Keough> Michael J. Keough 12. Design and analysis: a researcher's handbook" By Keppel and Wickens 13. An Introduction to Statistical Methods and Data Analysis by Ott and Longnecker 14. Ellison and Gotelli's book is excellent. (http://www.sinauer.com/detail.php?id=2690) 15. Ecological Census Techniques by Sutherland and Ecological Models and Data in R by Bolker. Analysis Books 1. Zuur, A. F., Ieno, E. N., Walker, N., Saveliev, A. A. & Smith, G. M. 2009. Mixed Effects Models 2. Extensions in Ecology with R, Statistics for Biology and Health. New York: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 3. Sheskin DJ. 2011. Handbook of parametric and nonparametric statistical procedures. 5th edition. 4. Chapman and Hall. 5. A Primer in Ecological Statistics by Gotelli and Ellison
