Sampling Design and Statistical Inference for Ecological Assessment

摘要: The success of ecological assessment depends on relevant and accurate information about the ecosystem or landscape under study. Data collected by sampling are a primary source ecosystems usually only that is specific to ecosystem. value sample data cannot be overestimated: these directly reflect processes organisms constituting system independent human-held assumptions theories. There three general approaches using describe processes: (1) often important components can assessed analyzing few summary statistics; (2) monitoring makes use for trend estimation uses hypothesis testing change detection; (3) occasionally, involves modeling processes, used model prediction.