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Developing effective sampling designs for monitoring natural resources in Alaskan national parks: An example using simulations and vegetation data

William L. Thompson, Auteur ; Amy E. Miller, Auteur ; Dorothy C. Mortenson, Auteur ; Andrea Woodward, Auteur

Dans Biological Conservation (144(5) MAY 2011)

Monitoring natural resources in Alaskan national parks is challenging because of their remoteness, limited accessibility, and high sampling costs. We describe an iterative, three-phased process for developing sampling designs based on our effort[...]

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Planning for success: Identifying effective and efficient survey designs for monitoring

Joel H. Reynolds, Auteur ; William L. Thompson, Auteur ; Brook Russell, Auteur

Dans Biological Conservation (144(5) MAY 2011)

Selecting a survey design to detect change through time in an ecological resource requires balancing the speed with which a given level of change can be detected against the cost of monitoring. Planning studies allow one to assess these tradeoff[...]

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