Reconciling Rigor and Range: Observations, Experiments, and Quasi-experiments in Field Primatology

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 520-541

  Janson, Charles H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Experiments; Field studies; Observations; Primates; Repeated observations; Statistics

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELDWORK; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRIMATE; THEORETICAL STUDY; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 84861797770     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10764-011-9550-7     Document Type: Article

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