Elzinga / Salzer / Willoughby Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations

A Handbook for Field Biologists
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-1310-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten, E-Book

Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations offers an overviewof population monitoring issues that is accessible to the typicalfield biologist and land managers with a modest statisticalbackground. The text includes concrete guidelines for ecologists tofollow to design a statistically defensible monitoringprogram.
* * User-friendly, practical guide, written in a highly readableformat.
* The authors provide an interdisciplinary scope to address thecurrent, widespread interest in monitoring in many environmentalfields, including pure and applied ecology, conservation biology,and wildlife management.
* Emphasizes the role of monitoring in adaptive management.
* Defines important terminology and contrasts monitoring withother data-collection activities. Covers the applicable principlesof sampling and shows how to design a monitoring project.
* Provides a step-by-step overview of the monitoring process,illustrated by flow charts and references. The authors also offerguidelines for analyzing and interpreting monitoring data.
* Illustrates the foundation of management objectives anddescribes their components, types, and development.
* Describes common field techniques for measuring importantattributes of animal and plant populations.
* Reviews different methods for recording monitoring data in thefield, managing the data, and communicating data to policymakers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Elzinga, Caryl L.

Salzer, Daniel W.

Willoughby, John W.

Gibbs, James P.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
1. Introduction To Monitoring.
2. Monitoring Overview.
3. Selecting Among Priorities.
4. Qualitative Techniques For Monitoring.
5. General Field Techniques.
6. Data Collection And Data Management.
7. Basic Principles Of Sampling.
8. Sampling Design.
9. Statistical Analysis.
10. Analysis Of Trends.
11. Selecting Random Samples.
12. Field Techniques For Measuring Vegetation.
13. Specialized Sampling Methods And Field Techniques ForAnimals.
14. Objectives.
15. Communication And Monitoring Plans.
Appendix I: Monitoring Communities.
Appendix II: Sample Size Equations.
Appendix III: Confidence Interval Equations.
Appendix IV: Sample Size And Confidence Intervals For ComplexSampling Designs.
Literature Cited.
Index References