Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations: A Handbook for Field BiologistsISBN: 978-0-632-04442-9
Spiral-bound paperback
368 pages
February 2001, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.