Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations
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| Cod produs: |
138342 |
| Autor(i): |
Caryl L. Elzinga, Daniel W. Salzer, John W. Willoughby, James P. Gibbs |
| Editura: |
Editura Wiley-Blackwell |
| Anul aparitiei: |
2001 |
| Nr. pagini: |
368 pagini |
| Limba: |
engleza |
| ISBN: |
9780632044429 |
| Categorii: |
Carti in Limbi Straine, Mathematics and Science, Biology, Life Sciences, Zoology & animal sciences, Animal ecology, Carti in Limba Engleza, Carti |
- 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.
