Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations

<i>Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations</i> 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.<br /> <ul> <li style=”list-style: none”><br /> </li> <li>User-friendly, practical guide, written in a highly readable format.<br /> </li> <li>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.<br /> </li> <li>Emphasizes the role of monitoring in adaptive management.<br /> </li> <li>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.<br /> </li> <li>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.<br /> </li> <li>Illustrates the foundation of management objectives and describes their components, types, and development.<br /> </li> <li>Describes common field techniques for measuring important attributes of animal and plant populations.<br /> </li> <li>Reviews different methods for recording monitoring data in the field, managing the data, and communicating data to policy makers.</li> </ul>