Monitoring PLANT and ANIMAL populations; Table of Contents; PREFACE; Chapter 1: Introduction to Momitoring; Chapter 2: Monitoring Overview; Chapter 3: Selecting Among Priorities; Chapter 4: Qualitative Techniques for Monitoring; Chapter 5: General Field Techniques; Chapter 6: Data Collection and Data Management; Chapter 7: Basic Principles of Sampling; Chapter 8: Sampling Design; Chapter 9: Statistical Analysis; Chapter 10: Analysis of Trends; Chapter 11: Selecting Random Samples; Chapter 12: Field Techniques for Measuring Vegetation
Summary
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 mana
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-352)
