Monitoring animal populations and their habitats : a practitioner's guide
"In the face of so many unprecedented changes in our environment, the pressure is on scientists to lead the way toward a more sustainable future. Written by a team of ecologists, Monitoring Animal Populations and Their Habitats: A Practitioner's Guide provides a framework that natural reso...
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Boca Raton, Florida :
CRC Press ,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Lessons learned from current monitoring programs
- 3. Community-based monitoring
- 4. Goals and objectives now and into the future
- 5. Designing a monitoring plan
- 6. Factors to consider when designing the monitoring plan
- 7. Putting monitoring to work on the ground
- 8. Field techniques for population sampling and estimation
- 9. Techniques for sampling habitat
- 10. Database management
- 11. Data analysis in monitoring
- 12. Reporting
- 13. Uses of the data: synthesis, risk assessment, and decision making
- 14. Changing the monitoring approach
- 15. The future of monitoring