Hi Will,
It is difficult to give advice without knowing a lot more about the
problem at hand and that is not something for an email list but for local
statistical support at your University etc., but your observations as you
describe them will not be independent and hence violate the assumptions
I’m posting a general question to those who know something about
ecological statistics. As part of my masters thesis, I want to compare
bird species richness and abundance of birds detected in transects in
mature forests and mature forests experiencing low-density housing
development (I’ve
