Research questions

Question 1

The four types of sampling design

Answer 1

simple random
systematic
stratified random
clustered

Question 2

Simple random

Answer 2

randomly sample across the landscape

Question 3

stratified random

Answer 3

pick the areas where you know the animals will be to concentrate your effort there, and then randomize within that area.

Question 4

Three components of research

Answer 4

research question
experimental design
sampling design

Question 5

Science is…

Answer 5

Transparent, repeatable, universal

Question 6

Research question must be:

Answer 6

Answerable
falsifiable
ecological process
relevant spatial extent
examine comparative treatments
have quantifiable response variables

Question 7

Experimental Design Consists of

Answer 7

Experimental units
treatments
control
replicates
sample size (number of replicates)
effect size 
power analysis

Question 8

Sampling Design consists of

Answer 8

Sample plot
sample unit
sample element
sample size (number of elements)
variance
95% CIs.

Question 9

What is the essential aspect of science?

Answer 9

that it is based on data

Question 10

What are the three ways of counting wildlife?

Answer 10

census
index
sampling

Question 11

What is a census?

Answer 11

a total count

Question 12

What is indexing?

Answer 12

counting based on an indicator such as tracks or scat

Question 13

What is sampling?

Answer 13

selecting representitive units from a population to measure.
use statistical design to determine variance and confidence limits

Question 14

What are the four types of sampling?

Answer 14

simple random sampling
systematic sampling
stratified random sampling
cluster sampling

Question 15

What is ecology?

Answer 15

the scientific study of the interactions that determine the distribution of organisms

Question 16

What are the six steps in the cycle of adaptive management?

Answer 16

assess problem
design
implement
sample
evaluate
adjust

and repeat this

Question 17

How is the scientific different from other ways of learning?

Answer 17

it is transparent, repeatable and universal

Question 18

what are the three components of research?

Answer 18

research question
experimental design
sampling design

Question 19

Three things that are essential to science

Answer 19

Critical thought
scepticism
protocols

Question 20

What do you do once you have collected data?

Answer 20

plot it

Question 21

What is the first thing that you do when presented with plotted data?

Answer 21

read the axes

Question 22

What is a time series?

Answer 22

shows you the number of individuals at each time

Question 23

What is a population rate of change?

Answer 23

how much the population changes in size at each time step

Question 24

what is per capita rate of change?

Answer 24

looking at if the amount of growth in a population depends on the size of the population

Question 25

What is natural history?

Answer 25

observing nature

commenting on your observations

Question 26

What is conservation?

Answer 26

a social process to protect the environment

Question 27

What is a model?

Answer 27

an abstraction of reality that captures key features of complex systems

Question 28

What is social context?

Answer 28

the settings in which people engage with each other

It affects how we relate to each other, communicate and how governments interact with their citizens