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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.

Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations: A Handbook for Field Biologists

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 21/02/2001
    ISBN13: 9780632044429, 978-0632044429
    ISBN10: 063204442X

    Number of Pages: 368

    Non Fiction , Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment , Education

    Description

    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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