Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations A Handbook for Field Biologists

by Elzinga, Caryl L.; Salzer, Daniel W.; Willoughby, John W.; Gibbs, James P.

• ISBN13: 9780632044429
• ISBN10: 063204442X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Activity Book
• Copyright: 2001-02-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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 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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction to Monitoring	1	(10)
Monitoring Overview	11	(10)
Selecting Among Priorities	21	(16)
Qualitative Techniques for Monitoring	37	(12)
General Field Techniques	49	(16)
Data Collection and Data Management	65	(10)
Basic Principles of Sampling	75	(26)
Sampling Design	101	(48)
Statistical Analysis	149	(36)
Analysis of Trends	185	(10)
Selecting Random Samples	195	(10)
Field Techniques for Measuring Vegetation	205	(26)
Specialized Sampling Methods and Field Techniques for Animals	231	(16)
Objectives	247	(24)
Communication and Monitoring Plans	271	(12)
Appendix I Monitoring Communities	283	(16)
Appendix II Sample Size Equations	299	(20)
Appendix III Confidence Interval Equations	319	(10)
Appendix IV Sample Size and Confidence Intervals for Complex Sampling Designs	329	(10)
Literature Cited	339	(14)
Index	353