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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778150403321

Autore

Thompson William L

Titolo

Sampling Rare or Elusive Species [[electronic resource] ] : Concepts, Designs, and Techniques for Estimating Population Parameters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington DC, : Island Press, 2004

ISBN

1-59726-123-8

1-61091-106-7

1-59726-922-0

1-4294-9522-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (428 p.)

Disciplina

591.68

Soggetti

Rare animals -- Monitoring

Rare plants -- Monitoring

Landscape ecology - Environmental aspects - Planning

Land use

Ecological landscape design

Earth & Environmental Sciences

Ecology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Copyrights Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Ch. 1: Introduction""; ""Part I: Overview and Basic Concepts""; ""Ch. 2: Sampling Rare Populations""; ""Ch. 3: Separating Components of Detection Probablilit in Abundance Estimation""; ""Ch. 4: Indexes as Surrogates to Abundance for Low-Abundance Species""; ""Part II: Sampling Designs for Rare Species and Populations""; ""Ch. 5: Application of Adaptive Sampling to Biological Populations""; ""Ch. 6: Two-Phase Adaptive Stratified Sampling""

""Ch. 7: Sequential Sampling for Rare or Geographically Clustered Populations""""Part III: Estimating Occupancy""; ""Ch. 8: Occupancy Estimation and Modeling for Rare and Elusive Populations""; ""Ch. 9: A Bayelisan Appraoch to Estimating Presence When a Species is Undetected""; ""Ch. 10: Searching for New Populations of Rare Plant Species in Remote Locations""; ""Part IV: Estimating Abundance, Density



and other Parameters""; ""Ch. 11: Using Noninvasive Genetic Sampling to Detect and Estimate Abundance of Rare Wildlife Species""

""Ch. 12: Photographic Sampling of Elusive Mammals in Tropical Forests""""Ch. 13: Using Probability Sampling of Animal Tracks in Snow to estimate Population Size""; ""Ch. 14: Sampling Rockfish Populations: Adaptive Sampling and Hydroacoustics""; ""Ch. 15: Survival Estimation in Bats: Historical Overview, Critical Appraisal, and Suggestions for New Approaches""; ""Ch. 16: Evaluating Methods for Monitoring Population of Mexican Spotted Owls: A Case Study""; ""Part V: The Future""; ""Ch. 17: Future Directions in Estimating Abundnace of Rare or Elusive Species""; ""Contributors""; ""Reviewers""

""About the Editor""