Caryl L Elzinga, Daniel W Salzer, John W Willoughby, James P Gibbs

Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations

A Handbook for Field Biologists

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 monitoring data sets with computers. * Comprehensive presentation of statistical analysis and communicating results.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 210mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 909g
• ISBN-13: 9780632044429
• ISBN-10: 063204442X
• Artikelnr.: 21424116

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

"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, 2002