Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity
Wilson, Don E. / Nichols, James D. / Foster, Mercedes / Cole, F. Russell / Rudran, Rasanayagam
Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity: Standard Methods for Mammals provides a comprehensive manual for designing and implementing inventories of mammalian biodiversity anywhere in the world and for any group, from rodents to open-country grazers. The book emphasizes formal estimation approaches, which supply data that can be compared across habitats and over time. Beginning with brief natural histories of the twenty-six orders of livi...