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Distance Sampling: Methods and Applications

In this book, the authors cover the basic methods and advances within distance sampling that are most valuable to practitioners and in ecology more broadly. This is the fourth book dedicated to distance sampling. In the decade since the last book published, there have been a number of new developmen...

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Main Authors: Buckland, S. T. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Rexstad, E.A. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Marques, T.A. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Oedekoven, C.S. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Methods in Statistical Ecology,
Subjects:
Statistics .
Community ecology, Biotic.
Animal ecology.
Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.
Community & Population Ecology.
Animal Ecology.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19219-2
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The basic methods
  • Designing surveys
  • Designing distance sampling experiments
  • Field methods and data checking
  • Modelling detection functions
  • Design-based estimation of animal density and abundance
  • Model-based distance sampling: two-stage models
  • Model-based distance sampling: full likelihood methods
  • Variations on a theme
  • Taxon-specific issues
  • Exchanging assumptions for data
  • Summary.

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