Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations
A Handbook for Field Biologists
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 21. February 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-632-04442-9 (ISBN)
Description
Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations offers an overview of population monitoring issues that is accessible to the typical field biologist and land managers 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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"A handbook to help field biologists and land managers cope with monitoring is a worthwhile product." Professor Michael McGowan, San Francisco State University "Such a text could easily form the basis for undergraduate and graduate courses in institutions having programs which include wildlife, fisheries, ecology, or conservation biology. It would also be important reading for state and federal agency personnel and all those biologists involved in the ecological consulting field." Professor Gary Vinyard, University of Nevada at Reno"One of the most intractable problems facing ecologists and conservationists conducting manipulative experiments on ecosystems is monitoring the outcome. Without such monitoring the experiments, of course, are worthless, so careful considerations of experimental design and recording techniques prior to the establishment of the manipulations are always worthwhile, and it is here that this practical manual seeks to exist." Bulletin of the British Ecological Society, 2002
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
909 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-632-04442-9 (9780632044429)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Caryl L. Elzinga | Daniel W. Salzer | John W. Willoughby
Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations
A Handbook for Field Biologists
E-Book
05/2009
Wiley-Blackwell
€82.99
Available for download
Persons
Caryl L. Elzinga and Daniel W. Salzer are the authors of Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations: A Handbook for Field Biologists, published by Wiley.
Content
Preface vii
Chapter 1 Introduction to Monitoring 1
Chapter 2 Monitoring Overview 11
Chapter 3 Selecting Among Priorities 21
Chapter 4 Qualitative Techniques For Monitoring 37
Chapter 5 General Field Techniques 49
Chapter 6 Data Collection and Data Management 65
Chapter 7 Basic Principles of Sampling 75
Chapter 8 Sampling Design 101
Chapter 9 Statistical Analysis 149
Chapter 10 Analysis of Trends 185
Chapter 11 Selecting Random Samples 195
Chapter 12 Field Techniques For Measuring Vegetation 205
Chapter 13 Specialized Sampling Methods and Field Techniques For Animals 231
Chapter 14 Objectives 247
Chapter 15 Communication and Monitoring Plans 271
Appendix I: Monitoring Communities 283
Appendix II: Sample Size Equations 299
Appendix III: Confidence Interval Equations 319
Appendix IV: Sample Size and Confidence Intervals For Complex Sampling Designs 329
Literature Cited 339
Index 353
Chapter 1 Introduction to Monitoring 1
Chapter 2 Monitoring Overview 11
Chapter 3 Selecting Among Priorities 21
Chapter 4 Qualitative Techniques For Monitoring 37
Chapter 5 General Field Techniques 49
Chapter 6 Data Collection and Data Management 65
Chapter 7 Basic Principles of Sampling 75
Chapter 8 Sampling Design 101
Chapter 9 Statistical Analysis 149
Chapter 10 Analysis of Trends 185
Chapter 11 Selecting Random Samples 195
Chapter 12 Field Techniques For Measuring Vegetation 205
Chapter 13 Specialized Sampling Methods and Field Techniques For Animals 231
Chapter 14 Objectives 247
Chapter 15 Communication and Monitoring Plans 271
Appendix I: Monitoring Communities 283
Appendix II: Sample Size Equations 299
Appendix III: Confidence Interval Equations 319
Appendix IV: Sample Size and Confidence Intervals For Complex Sampling Designs 329
Literature Cited 339
Index 353