Some Recent Advances in the Estimation of Animal Abundance

摘要

A series of lectures dealing with recent advances in the estimation of animal abundance are presented. The selection of topics are somewhat unrelated and have been chosen to encompass as wide an audience as possible. Lectures are titled as follows: Sample Survey Methods: Ground and Aerial Counts; Line and Strip Transects; The Line Intercept Method for Estimating Density and Ground Cover; Capture-Recapture Methods: Closed Population; The Multi-Sample Single Recapture Census; and The Use and Misuse of Animal Life Tables.