Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations
A Handbook for Field Biologists
Published on 11. May 2009
368 pages
978-1-4443-1310-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"A handbook to help field biologists and land managers cope withmonitoring is a worthwhile product." Professor Michael McGowan,San Francisco State University "Such a text could easily form the basis for undergraduate andgraduate courses in institutions having programs which includewildlife, fisheries, ecology, or conservation biology. It wouldalso be important reading for state and federal agency personneland all those biologists involved in the ecological consultingfield." Professor Gary Vinyard, University of Nevada atReno "One of the most intractable problems facing ecologists andconservationists conducting manipulative experiments on ecosystemsis monitoring the outcome. Without such monitoring the experiments,of course, are worthless, so careful considerations of experimentaldesign and recording techniques prior to the establishment of themanipulations are always worthwhile, and it is here that thispractical manual seeks to exist." Bulletin of the BritishEcological Society, 2002More details
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Caryl L. Elzinga | Daniel W. Salzer | John W. Willoughby
Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations
A Handbook for Field Biologists
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02/2001
1st Edition
Wiley
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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.
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
