• Ecological monitoring and its design: Why do we monitor? – What is ecological monitoring? – What is ecological monitoring for? – Values and ecological attributes – What method to use? – What sampling plan to implement? -Best cost-effective monitoring plan – Data collection and analysis – Summary: ecological monitoring plan – Statistics: Basic notions of statistics – Numerical summaries – Graphical summaries – Population distribution models – Confidence intervals – Hypothesis tests – Jolly method
• Techniques: Basics of ecology (part 1) – Basics of ecology (part 2) – Monitoring abiotic factors – Monitoring plants – Monitoring large mammals directly – Monitoring large mammals indirectly – Monitoring carniores – Monitoring primates – Aerial count – Monitoring mobile animals
• Examples of ecological monitoring: Levels of ecological monitoring – Ecological monitoring of NRT conservancies – Example of EM in Nazinga – Marine protected areas – EM example in the forest: Tai National Park in Côte d’Ivoire – EM example in the savanna: Comoé National Park in Côte d’Ivoire – Monitoring water birds – EM elephants – 20 Golden rules

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Publisher: EPFL Press

Author(s): Geoffroy Mauvais, Béatrice Chataigner, Victor M. Panaretos, Emmanuel M. Hema, Inza Kone

Collection: BOOCs EPFL

Published: 28 february 2017

Edition: 1^st edition

Media: eBook [PDF]

Pages count eBook [PDF]: 47

Size: 5,5 Mo (PDF)

Language(s): French

EAN13 eBook [PDF]: 9782889144228