"Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations" is a thorough overview of
monitoring issues. It is designed for field biologists and land
managers with a modest statistical background. The authors have
written a practical text that will include concrete guidelines for
ecologists to follow to design a statistically defensible
monitoring program for natural populations and communities.
Features
User-friendly, practical guide, written in a highly readable format
which integrates the theme of decision making guidance and
management.
Only population monitoring text to focus on both plant and
animals.
Interdisciplinary in scope, given the current, widespread interest
in monitoring in many environmental fields including pure and
applied ecology, conservation biology, and wildlife
management.
Includes suggestions for monitoring plant and animal
communities.
Outlines the essential concepts in monitoring populations.
Emphasizes the role o monitoring in adaptive management.
Defines important terminology and contrasts monitoring with other
data-collection activities.
Provides a step-by-step overview of the monitoring process, as
illustrated by flow charts and references.
Illustrates the foundation of management objectives and describes
their components, types, and development.
Describes basic terms and concepts relevant to sampling using
simple examples.
Explains how to make basic decisions in designing a sample-based
monitoring study.
Provides field techniques for measuring important attributes of
animal and plant populations.
Covers different ways of recording monitoring data in the field and
describes means for entering and managing field monitoringdata sets
with computers.
Comprehensive presentation of statistical analysis and
communicating results.
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