{"product_id":"monitoring-plant-and-animal-populations-isbn-9780632044429","title":"Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonitoring Plant and Animal Populations\u003c\/i\u003e offers an overview of population monitoring issues that is accessible to the typical field biologist and land managers with a modest statistical background.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe text includes concrete guidelines for ecologists to follow to design a statistically defensible monitoring program.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eUser-friendly, practical guide, written in a highly readable format.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEmphasizes the role of monitoring in adaptive management.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDefines important terminology and contrasts monitoring with other data-collection activities. Covers the applicable principles of sampling and shows how to design a monitoring project.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides 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.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIllustrates the foundation of management objectives and describes their components, types, and development.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDescribes common field techniques for measuring important attributes of animal and plant populations.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReviews different methods for recording monitoring data in the field, managing the data, and communicating data to policy makers.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Introduction to Monitoring 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Monitoring Overview 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Selecting Among Priorities 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Qualitative Techniques For Monitoring 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 General Field Techniques 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Data Collection and Data Management 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7 Basic Principles of Sampling 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8 Sampling Design 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9 Statistical Analysis 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10 Analysis of Trends 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11 Selecting Random Samples 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12 Field Techniques For Measuring Vegetation 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13 Specialized Sampling Methods and Field Techniques For Animals 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14 Objectives 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 15 Communication and Monitoring Plans 271\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix I: Monitoring Communities 283\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix II: Sample Size Equations 299\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix III: Confidence Interval Equations 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix IV: Sample Size and Confidence Intervals For Complex Sampling Designs 329\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiterature Cited 339\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 353\u003c\/p\u003e  \"A handbook to help field biologists and land managers cope with monitoring is a worthwhile product.\" \u003ci\u003eProfessor Michael McGowan, San Francisco State University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Such a text could easily form the basis for undergraduate and graduate courses in institutions having programs which include wildlife, fisheries, ecology, or conservation biology. It would also be important reading for state and federal agency personnel and all those biologists involved in the ecological consulting field.\" \u003ci\u003eProfessor Gary Vinyard, University of Nevada at Reno\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"One of the most intractable problems facing ecologists and conservationists conducting manipulative experiments on ecosystems is monitoring the outcome. Without such monitoring the experiments, of course, are worthless, so careful considerations of experimental design and recording techniques prior to the establishment of the manipulations are always worthwhile, and it is here that this practical manual seeks to exist.\" \u003ci\u003eBulletin of the British Ecological Society, 2002\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCaryl L. Elzinga and Daniel W. Salzer are the authors of Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations: A Handbook for Field Biologists, published by Wiley.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonitoring Plant and Animal Populations\u003c\/i\u003e is a thorough overview of monitoring issues. It is designed for field biologists and land managers with a modest statistical background. The authors have written a practical text that will include concrete guidelines for ecologists to follow to design a statistically defensible monitoring program for natural populations and communities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eUser-friendly, practical guide, written in a highly readable format which integrates the theme of decision making guidance and management.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOnly population monitoring text to focus on both plant and animals.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInterdisciplinary in scope, given the current, widespread interest in monitoring in many environmental fields including pure and applied ecology, conservation biology, and wildlife management.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes suggestions for monitoring plant and animal communities.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOutlines the essential concepts in monitoring populations.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEmphasizes the role o monitoring in adaptive management.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDefines important terminology and contrasts monitoring with other data-collection activities.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a step-by-step overview of the monitoring process, as illustrated by flow charts and references.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIllustrates the foundation of management objectives and describes their components, types, and development.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDescribes basic terms and concepts relevant to sampling using simple examples.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplains how to make basic decisions in designing a sample-based monitoring study.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides field techniques for measuring important attributes of animal and plant populations.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers different ways of recording monitoring data in the field and describes means for entering and managing field monitoring data sets with computers.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eComprehensive presentation of statistical analysis and communicating results.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989652553957,"sku":"NP9780632044429","price":103.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780632044429.jpg?v=1761784967","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/monitoring-plant-and-animal-populations-isbn-9780632044429","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}