The adaptive potential of a population defines its importance for species survival in changing environmental conditions such as global climate change. Very few empirical studies have examined adaptive ...

A typical Pew Research Center national survey – regardless of mode – is designed and implemented with a total survey error approach in mind, aimed at minimizing ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 72, No. 2 (Jun., 1989), pp. 337-343 (7 pages) The most common method of sampling mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae: Scapteriscus spp.), soap flushing, was ...

In many situations there is interest in parameters (e.g., mean) associated with the response distribution of individual clusters in a finite clustered population. We develop predictors of such ...