Monitoring Vertebrate Populations

This book is written to serve as a general reference for biologists and resource managers with relatively little statistical training. It focuses on both basic concepts and practical applications to provide professionals with the tools needed to assess monitoring methods that can detect trends in populations. It combines classical finite population sampling designs with population enumeration procedures in a unified approach for obtaining abundance estimates for species of interest. The statistical information is presented in practical, easy-to-understand terminology.

• Presented in practical, easy-to-understand terminology
• Serves as a general reference for biologists and resource managers
• Provides the tools needed to detect trends in populations
• Introduces a unified approach for obtaining abundance estimates

Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff with interests in wildlife biology, conservation, ecology, and fishery science. Labs and federal agencies

Basic Concepts
Sampling Designs and Related Topics
Enumeration Methods
Community Surveys
Detection of a Trend in Population Estimates
Guidelines for Planning Surveys
Fish
Amphibians and Reptiles
Birds
Mammals
Glossary of Terms
Glossary of Notation
Sampling Estimators
Common and Scientific Names of Cited Vertebrates