Tesis

ANALYSIS OF DATA APPLIED TO TERRESTRIAL AND/OR MARINE BIODIVERSITY

En esta tesis se logra identificar mediante parámetros estadísticos aspectos muy
importantes al momento de realizar sondeos, muestreos y evaluaciones a la calidad y
cantidad de biodiversidad existente en un determinado territorio, esto con el fin de lograr
asegurar la perpetuidad de las especies.
When we want to investigate a particular population, it’s necesary to apply statistical
methods on representative samples taken from the species that we decided to investigate,
to get inference about it. The main aim is to test if the morphological characteristics change
in function of the species: Gallotia galloti (lizard of Tenerife), Tarentola delalandi (gecko) and
Chalcides viridanus (skink). We concluded that the species have similarities based on the
measurements made specifically for this study, for example, G. galloti y C. viridanus
manifested more similar lengths that T. delalandi, considering snout-to-vent length (LHC).
The two subspecies of G. galloti don’t have any significant differences. The measures can
also change according to the sex factor, which proves that these species shows sexual
dimorphism. This study provides proof that males have a bigger body size than females,
except C. viridanus females, because they have larger LHC than males, however this can’t
be proved by statistical analysis.
Statistical inference was made, based on a sample with a size total of 249 individuals of the
three species, of which 193 are male, 195 females and 37 juveniles (Table 1). Two groups
of data were used, the first was previously obtained by the research group coordinated by
the professor Miguel Molina and the second one was taken specifically for this TFG, both by
the same procedure (see sampling design in section II.1). Since the sex factor is analyzed,
the most appropriate for this study would be carry out stratified sampling, with the objective
that the sample have a composition analogous to the population. However, due to the
complication of the same and lacking prior information on the areas of sampling, it is decided
to carry out a random sampling. Thus, Any point within the different areas where the study
is conducted, must have a priori the same probability of being chosen and this probability
has to be independent of the probability of the rest of the points (Zar, 1984).

Descriptive statistics have summary measures of the distribution of The variables of the
study. From these measures, the most important characteristics of a data set, such as its
central tendency and its variability or dispersion (López & Juárez, 2004), indispensable
requirements to interpret an observation. Another aspect of importance is the asymmetry
and the kurtosis of the distribution, which allows us sample sample a first approximation to
the normal distribution. Subsequently, we graphically represent the most characteristic
important data set, allowing faster viewing and structured results (López. & Juárez., 2004).
For the sex factor, at being a qualitative variable, we generate a bar chart, while that for the
rest of the variables a histogram is used. To be able to represent the two types of variables
in the same graph, we have the diagrams of boxes, which allow us to observe how the sex
factor affects the variables quantitative dependents, in addition to representing the outliers
that are they give in each of the variables (Martin Bonilla , 2017)

Bibliografía
Martin Bonilla , C. (2017). Analysis of data applied to terrestrial and/ or marine biodiversity.
Trabajo de fin de grado . Universidad de la Laguna , San Cristobal , España . Obtenido de
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