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.
Autorentext
Caryl L. Elzinga and Daniel W. Salzer are the authors of Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations: A Handbook for Field Biologists, published by Wiley.
Zusammenfassung
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.
Inhalt
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