Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations
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Book Description
An overview of population monitoring issues that is accessible to the typical field biologist and land managers with a modest statistical background. This text will include concrete guidelines for ecologists to follow to design a statistically defensible monitoring program.
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Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations offers an overview of population monitoring issues that is accessible to the typical field biologist and land manager with a modest statistical background. The text includes concrete guidelines for ecologists to follow to design a statistically defensible monitoring program.
User-friendly, practical guide, written in a highly readable format.
The authors provide an interdisciplinary scope to address the current, widespread interest in monitoring in many environmental fields, including pure and applied ecology, conservation biology, and wildlife management
Emphasizes the role of monitoring in adaptive management
Defines important terminology and contrasts monitoring with other data-collection activities
Covers the applicable principles of 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 offer guidelines for analyzing and interpreting monitoring data
Illustrates the foundation of management objectives and describes their components, types, and development
Describes common field techniques for measuring important attributes of animal and plant populations
Reviews different methods for recording monitoring data in the field, managing the data, and communicating data to policy makers
Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations
Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations,Caryl L. Elzinga,Daniel W. Salzer,John W. Willoughby,James P. Gibbs,Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated,063204442X,Animal Ecology,Animal populations,Environmental Engineering & Technology,Environmental monitoring,Life Sciences - Biology - General,Life Sciences - Ecology,Plant Ecology,Plant populations,Science,Science/Mathematics,Biogeography,Ecological science, the Biosphere,Science / Environmental Science
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