Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations
Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations

Author: Caryl L. Elzinga

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-05-11

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 144431310X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations offers an overviewof population monitoring issues that is accessible to the typicalfield biologist and land managers with a modest statisticalbackground. The text includes concrete guidelines for ecologists tofollow to design a statistically defensible monitoringprogram. User-friendly, practical guide, written in a highly readableformat. The authors provide an interdisciplinary scope to address thecurrent, widespread interest in monitoring in many environmentalfields, including pure and applied ecology, conservation biology,and wildlife management. Emphasizes the role of monitoring in adaptive management. Defines important terminology and contrasts monitoring withother data-collection activities. Covers the applicable principlesof 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 offerguidelines for analyzing and interpreting monitoring data. Illustrates the foundation of management objectives anddescribes their components, types, and development. Describes common field techniques for measuring importantattributes of animal and plant populations. Reviews different methods for recording monitoring data in thefield, managing the data, and communicating data to policymakers.

Measuring and Monitoring Plant Populations
Measuring and Monitoring Plant Populations

Author: Caryl Elzinga

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-01-02

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9781505683066

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This technical reference applies to monitoring situations involving a single plant species, such as an indicator species, key species, or weed. It was originally developed for monitoring special status plants, which have some recognized status at the Federal, State, or agency level because of their rarity or vulnerability. Most examples and discussions in this technical reference focus on these special status species, but the methods described are also applicable to any single-species monitoring and even some community monitoring situations.We thus hope wildlife biologists, range conservationists, botanists, and ecologists will all find this technical reference helpful.

Measuring Monitoring Plant Populations
Measuring Monitoring Plant Populations

Author: U.S. Government

Publisher: Books LLC

Published: 2011-09

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 9781234106393

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Original publisher: [Denver, Colo.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, National Applied Resource Sciences Center, 1998?] OCLC Number: (OCoLC)319601606 Subject: Vegetation monitoring. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER 1 Introduction Arctomecon humilis Dwarf bear-claw poppy by Kaye H. Thorne

Vegetation Monitoring
Vegetation Monitoring

Author: Caryl L. Elzinga

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1998-05

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9780788148378

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This annotated bibliography documents literature addressing the design and implementation of vegetation monitoring. It provides resources managers, ecologists, and scientists access to the great volume of literature addressing many aspects of vegetation monitoring: planning and objective setting, choosing vegetation attributes to measure, sampling design, sampling methods, statistical and graphical analysis, and communication of results. Over half of the 1400 references have been annotated. Keywords pertaining to the type of monitoring or method are included with each bibliographic entry. Keyword index.

Measuring Plant Diversity
Measuring Plant Diversity

Author: Thomas J. Stohlgren

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 0195172337

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Here is a thorough presentation and critique of the sampling approaches, designs and field techniques for measuring plant diversity. Ecologists interested in assessing landscapes and ecosystems must measure biomass, cover, and the density or frequency of various key species. Recently, sampling designs for measuring species richness and diversity, patterns of plant diversity, species-environment relationships, and species distributions have become finer-grained, as it has become increasingly important to accurately map and assess rare species for conservation. This book lays out the range of current methods for mapping and measuring species diversity, for field ecologists, resource managers, conservation biologists, and students, as a tool kit for future field measurements of plant diversity.