Sampling Rare or Elusive Species: Concepts, Designs, and Techniques for Estimating Population Parameters

Sampling Rare or Elusive Species: Concepts, Designs, and Techniques for Estimating Population Parameters
ISBN-10
1610911067
ISBN-13
9781610911061
Category
Nature
Pages
429
Language
English
Published
2013-04-10
Publisher
Island Press
Author
William Thompson

Description

Information regarding population status and abundance of rare species plays a key role in resource management decisions. Ideally, data should be collected using statistically sound sampling methods, but by their very nature, rare or elusive species pose a difficult sampling challenge. Sampling Rare or Elusive Species describes the latest sampling designs and survey methods for reliably estimating occupancy, abundance, and other population parameters of rare, elusive, or otherwise hard-to-detect plants and animals. It offers a mixture of theory and application, with actual examples from terrestrial, aquatic, and marine habitats around the world. Sampling Rare or Elusive Species is the first volume devoted entirely to this topic and provides natural resource professionals with a suite of innovative approaches to gathering population status and trend data. It represents an invaluable reference for natural resource professionals around the world, including fish and wildlife biologists, ecologists, biometricians, natural resource managers, and all others whose work or research involves rare or elusive species.

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