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Monitoring Vertebrate Populations
1st Edition
Authors:
William Thompson
Gary White
Charles Gowan
eBook ISBN: 9780080536941
Hardcover ISBN: 9780126889604
Imprint: Academic Press
Published Date: 23rd July 1998
Page Count: 365
Description
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.
Key Features
- 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
Readership
Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff with interests in wildlife biology, conservation, ecology, and fishery science. Labs and federal agencies
Table of Contents
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
Details
- No. of pages:
- 365
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © Academic Press 1998
- Published:
- 23rd July 1998
- Imprint:
- Academic Press
- eBook ISBN:
- 9780080536941
- Hardcover ISBN:
- 9780126889604
About the Author
William Thompson
Affiliations and Expertise
USDA Forest Service, Boise, Idaho, U.S.A.
Gary White
Affiliations and Expertise
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, U.S.A.
Charles Gowan
Affiliations and Expertise
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, U.S.A.
Reviews
"...a most welcome addition. Thompson, White, and Gowan have written a valuable book, one certainly to be referred to by those following trends in species inventory and monitoring programs. The book offers a great deal to take in, a great many lessons that need to be delivered. Monitoring Vertebrate Populations should be required reading for administrators and resource managers before they undertake funding and program planning. I recommend it." --C. Kenneth Dodd in COPEIA, 1999
"...will enable the wildlife biologist/manager, natural resource administrator, or policy make to better evaluate research concerning the status of wildlife populations. For the statistically impaired or statisiphobics among us, it offers hope and a lighted path toward meaningful data gathering and analysis. It will no doubt earn a place among your most useful professional tests on your workshelf." --Bruce B. Davit in JOURNAL OF RANGE MANAGEMENT, January 1999
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