Advanced Distance Sampling: Estimating Abundance of Biological Populations

by S.T. Buckland and J.L. Laake

Book Overview

This advanced text focuses on the uses of distance sampling to estimate the density and abundance of biological populations. It addresses new methodologies, new technologies and recent developments in statistical theory and is the follow-up companion to Introduction to Distance Sampling (OUP, 2001). In this text, a general theoretical basis is established for methods of estimating animal abundance from sighting surveys, and a wide range of approaches...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198507836
• ISBN13: 9780198507833
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.