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Monitoring Animal Populations and their Habitats: A Practitioner's Guide
In the face of so many unprecedented changes occurring in our lives, our ecosystems and our globe, society is more often expecting scientists to provide information that can help guide communities toward a more sustainable future. This book is our attempt to provide a framework that managers of natural resources can use to design monitoring programs that will benefit future generations by providing the information needed to make informed decisions.
- Author
- Brenda McComb, Benjamin Zuckerberg, David Vesely, Christopher Jordan
- Publisher
- Oregon State University
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 17 sections
- 01: Chapters
- 1.01: Introduction
- 1.02: Lessons Learned from Current Monitoring Programs
- 1.03: Community-Based Monitoring
- 1.04: Goals and Objectives Now and Into the Future
- 1.05: Designing a Monitoring Plan
- 1.06: Factors to Consider When Designing the Monitoring Plan
- 1.07: Putting Monitoring to Work on the Ground
- 1.08: Field Techniques for Population Sampling and Estimation
- 1.09: Techniques for Sampling Habitat
- 1.10: Database Management
- 1.11: Data Analysis in Monitoring
- 1.12: Reporting
- 1.13: Uses of the Data- Synthesis Risk Assessment and Decision Making
- 1.14: Changing the Monitoring Approach
- 1.15: The Future of Monitoring
- 02: Appendix 1. Scientific names of species mentioned in the text