Over the last decade, there has been a rapid growth in the application of quantitative genetic
techniques to evolutionary studies of natural populations. Whereas this work yields …

A Guide to Doing Statistics in Second Language Research Using SPSS and R, Second
Edition is the only text available that demonstrates how to use SPSS and R as specifically …

Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) An essential textbook for any student or
researcher in biology needing to design experiments, sampling programs or analyse the …

Genotype-by-environment interaction (GEI) is an important phenomenon in plant breeding.
This paper presents a series of models for describing, exploring, understanding, and …

Efforts to understand the links between evolutionary and ecological dynamics hinge on our
ability to measure and understand how genes influence phenotypes, fitness and population …

Mixed-effect models are frequently used to control for the nonindependence of data points,
for example, when repeated measures from the same individuals are available. The aim of …

The methods for estimating methane emissions from cattle as used in the Australian national
inventory are based on older data that have now been superseded by a large amount of …

Objectives To investigate the longitudinal effect of sport participation in physical activity,
fitness and body fat changes during childhood and adolescence. Design Longitudinal study …

We analysed 1040 individual trees, located in 62 plots across the Amazon Basin for leaf
mass per unit area (MA), foliar carbon isotopic composition (δ 13 C) and leaf level …

This study characterizes the speech tempo (articulation rate, excluding pauses) of two
distinct varieties of American English taking into account both between-speaker and within …