Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations: A Handbook for Field Biologists - Softcover

Elzinga, Caryl L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 063204442X ISBN 13: 9780632044429

Publisher: 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.

About this title

About the Author

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

From the Back Cover

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.

From the Inside Flap

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 063204442X
• ISBN 13: 9780632044429
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 372