Description
Book SynopsisMonitoring 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.
Trade Review"A handbook to help field biologists and land managers cope with monitoring is a worthwhile product."
Professor Michael McGowan, San Francisco State University "Such a text could easily form the basis for undergraduate and graduate courses in institutions having programs which include wildlife, fisheries, ecology, or conservation biology. It would also be important reading for state and federal agency personnel and all those biologists involved in the ecological consulting field." Professor Gary Vinyard, University of Nevada at Reno
"One of the most intractable problems facing ecologists and conservationists conducting manipulative experiments on ecosystems is monitoring the outcome. Without such monitoring the experiments, of course, are worthless, so careful considerations of experimental design and recording techniques prior to the establishment of the manipulations are always worthwhile, and it is here that this practical manual seeks to exist." Bulletin of the British Ecological Society, 2002
Table of ContentsPreface 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
