Sampling Techniques For Forest Resource Inventory - Softcover

Shiver, Barry D.; Borders, Bruce E.

 
9780471109402: Sampling Techniques For Forest Resource Inventory
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0471109401 ISBN 13: 9780471109402
Publisher: Wiley, 1995

Synopsis

Clearly explains the sampling methods associated with the inventory of forest resources. It avoids extensive coverage of theoretical statistics and mathematics in favor of thorough coverage of forest inventory topics for the practitioner.

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About the Author

Barry D. Shiver and Bruce E. Borders are the authors of Sampling Techniques for Forest Resource Inventory, published by Wiley.

From the Back Cover

This book provides thorough coverage of forest inventory topics for the practioner rather than the theoretician. It should be understandable to forest resource undergraduates and indispensable as a reference for the practicing professional. It brings together techniques designed for timber inventory, methods created specifically for sampling mobile wildlife populations, and other methods which can be used to inventory virtually any forest resource (vegetation, soils, water, and so on). Many of the methods discussed have been previously available only as journal articles. Sampling Techniques for Forest Resource Inventory addresses practical questions such as:

  • How to determine needed sample size
  • How to handle edge effect problems
  • How to design cruises to reduce sampling errors
  • How to inventory to estimate forest growth
  • How to obtain the full benefits from stratification
  • How to use auxiliary variables to inventory more efficiently and more pre cisely simultaneously
  • How and when to use point sampling and how to make the point vs. plot comparison
  • How to conduct basic wildlife inventories
  • How and when to use 3P sampling

From the Inside Flap

This book provides thorough coverage of forest inventory topics for the practioner rather than the theoretician. It should be understandable to forest resource undergraduates and indispensable as a reference for the practicing professional. It brings together techniques designed for timber inventory, methods created specifically for sampling mobile wildlife populations, and other methods which can be used to inventory virtually any forest resource (vegetation, soils, water, and so on). Many of the methods discussed have been previously available only as journal articles. Sampling Techniques for Forest Resource Inventory addresses practical questions such as:

  • How to determine needed sample size
  • How to handle edge effect problems
  • How to design cruises to reduce sampling errors
  • How to inventory to estimate forest growth
  • How to obtain the full benefits from stratification
  • How to use auxiliary variables to inventory more efficiently and more pre cisely simultaneously
  • How and when to use point sampling and how to make the point vs. plot comparison
  • How to conduct basic wildlife inventories
  • How and when to use 3P sampling

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Wiley
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0471109401
ISBN 13 
9780471109402
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
371