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Advanced Distance Sampling - Estimating abundance of biological populations (Paperback, New Ed)
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Advanced Distance Sampling - Estimating abundance of biological populations (Paperback, New Ed)
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This advanced text focuses on the uses of distance sampling to
estimate the density and abundance of biological populations. It
addresses new methodologies, new technologies and recent
developments in statistical theory and is the follow up companion
to Introduction to Distance Sampling (OUP, 2001).
In this text, a general theoretical basis is established for
methods of estimating animal abundance from sightings surveys, and
a wide range of approaches to analysis of sightings data is
explored. These approaches include: modelling animal detectability
as a function of covariates, where the effects of habitat,
observer, weather, etc. on detectability can be assessed;
estimating animal density as a function of location, allowing for
example animal density to be related to habitat and other
locational covariates; estimating change over time in populations,
a necessary aspect of any monitoring program; estimation when
detection of animals on the line or at the point is uncertain, as
often occurs for marine populations, or when the survey region has
dense cover; survey design and automated design algorithms,
allowing rapid generation of sound survey designs using geographic
information systems; adaptive distance sampling methods, which
concentrate survey effort in areas of high animal density; passive
distance sampling methods, which extend the application of distance
sampling to species that cannot be readily detected in sightings
surveys, but can be trapped; and testing of methods by simulation,
so that performance of the approach in varying circumstances can be
assessed.
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