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

About this book

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.