Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations - Couverture souple

Elzinga, Caryl L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 063204442X ISBN 13 : 9780632044429

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 063204442X
• ISBN 13: 9780632044429
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 372
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• Personne responsable: non disponible