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Informationen zum 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. Klappentext Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations is a thorough overview of monitoring issues. It is designed for field biologists and land managers with a modest statistical background. The authors have written a practical text that will include concrete guidelines for ecologists to follow to design a statistically defensible monitoring program for natural populations and communities. Features User-friendly, practical guide, written in a highly readable format which integrates the theme of decision making guidance and management. Only population monitoring text to focus on both plant and animals. Interdisciplinary in scope, given the current, widespread interest in monitoring in many environmental fields including pure and applied ecology, conservation biology, and wildlife management. Includes suggestions for monitoring plant and animal communities. Outlines the essential concepts in monitoring populations. Emphasizes the role o monitoring in adaptive management. Defines important terminology and contrasts monitoring with other data-collection activities. Provides a step-by-step overview of the monitoring process, as illustrated by flow charts and references. Illustrates the foundation of management objectives and describes their components, types, and development. Describes basic terms and concepts relevant to sampling using simple examples. Explains how to make basic decisions in designing a sample-based monitoring study. Provides field techniques for measuring important attributes of animal and plant populations. Covers different ways of recording monitoring data in the field and describes means for entering and managing field monitoring data sets with computers. Comprehensive presentation of statistical analysis and communicating results. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 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 ...
