Monitoring Vertebrate Populations [Hardcover]

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

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 VertebratesMonitoring Vertebrate Populations shows that this subject area is not simply counting and comparing counts taken at different times. Detecting changes in abundance, density, and distribution is complex and influenced by sampling procedures, parameter estimation, plot size and shape, and many other factors. Devoted to general issues, Part I of the book on surveying, monitoring, and estimating applies equally well to any oganismal sampling research. Part II reviews procedures and biotic factors of particular relevance to major vertebrate groups. Certain to be useful to a wide cross section of wildlife biló!