Guide to the study of animal ecology

by Charles C. Adams

Directions for the study of insects.

Clements, F. E.

1905. Research Methods in Ecology. pp. 334. Lincoln, Nebraska.

Important for methods of study in plant ecology, partly also applicable to animals; photography, and instruments for the study of environments.

Dahl, F.

1901. Was ist ein Experiment, was Statistik in der Ethologie? Biol. Centralbl., Bd. XXI, pp. 675-681.

1903. Winke für ein wissenschaftlicher Sammeln von Thieren. Sitzungs-Ber. der Gesell. naturfor. Freunde zu Berlin. Jahrg. 1903, pp. 444-475.

This contains, in addition to its suggestions on collecting, an interesting outline or classification of animal habitats (Cf. also Enderlein, 1908, pp. 72-77). This is not a genetic classification. Dahl’s list of habitats will prove very suggestive to the student who wishes to develop the genetic system of classification. Ultimately we must, of course, develop the latter system.

1904. Kurze Anleitung zum wissenschaftlichen Sammeln und zum Conservieren von Thieren. pp. 59. Jena.

An enlarged edition of the preceding paper.