Review : Counting life

In Surveying Natural Populations,
Lee-Ann Hayek and Martin Buzas have supplied the “how-to” guidebook
for statistical novices that biologists and palaeobiologists have been waiting
for. Clear, concise and comprehensive, it counterpoints lucid explanations of
statistical theory with well-chosen real-world examples. Splendidly useful for
undergraduates, fieldworkers and academics. Published by Columbia University
Press, £19/$28, ISBN 0231102410.