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

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Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations (eBook, PDF)

A Handbook for Field Biologists

Beschreibung

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.

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Autor

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444313109
• Artikelnr.: 38405213

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