Sampling Techniques for Forest Resource Inventory

This book provides thorough coverage of forest inventory topics for the practioner rather than the theoretician. It should be understandable to forest resource undergraduates and indispensable as a reference for the practicing professional. It brings together techniques designed for timber inventory, methods created specifically for sampling mobile wildlife populations, and other methods which can be used to inventory virtually any forest resource (vegetation, soils, water, and so on). Many of the methods discussed have been previously available only as journal articles. Sampling Techniques for Forest Resource Inventory addresses practical questions such as:How to determine needed sample sizeHow to handle edge effect problemsHow to design cruises to reduce sampling errorsHow to inventory to estimate forest growthHow to obtain the full benefits from stratificationHow to use auxiliary variables to inventory more efficiently and more pre cisely simultaneouslyHow and when to use point sampling and how to make the point vs. plot comparisonHow to conduct basic wildlife inventoriesHow and when to use 3P sampling

Spis treści:
A Review of Necessary Statistics and Notation.
Elementary Sampling Methods: Selective, Simple Random, and Systematic Sampling.
Horizontal Point Sampling.
Stratified Random Sampling.
Ratio and Regression Estimators.
Double Sampling or Two–Phase Sampling.
Multistage Sampling––Inventorying Large Acreages.
Inventory Methods for Estimating Stand Growth.
3P and Line Intersect Sampling.
Estimating Wildlife Population Sizes.
Answers to Assorted Problems for Better Understanding.
Index.

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This book provides thorough coverage of forest inventory topics for the practioner rather than the theoretician. It should be understandable to forest resource undergraduates and indispensable as a reference for the practicin g professional. It brings together techniques designed for timber inventory, methods created specifically for sampling mobile wildlife populations, and other methods which can be used to inventory virtually any forest resource (vegetation, soils, water, and so on). Many of the methods discussed have been previously available only as journal articles. Sampling Techniques for Forest Resource Inventory addresses practical questions such as:How to determine needed sample sizeHow to handle edge effect problemsHow to design cruises to reduce sampling errorsHow to inventory to estimate forest growthHow to obtain the full benefits from stratificationHow to use auxiliary variables to inventory more efficiently and more pre cisely simultaneouslyHow and when to use point sampling and how to make the point vs. plot comparisonHow to conduct basic wildlife inventoriesHow and when to use 3P sampling