[NHC List] Conservation research in African rain forests (2000) available as download

[Johnson, Steve]

Conservation research in the African rainforest: a technical manual, edited by Lee White and Ann Edwards, published in 2000
by the Wildlife Conservation Society, is again available as a download in Adobe Acrobat format from the WCS.ORG website.  A direct link to the file is:

http://www.wcs.org/media/file/whiteedwards2000.pdf

File size is just over four megabytes: not bad for a 454 page book, I think.

WorldCat reports only seven libraries holding this manual, which was produced for internal training purposes, rather than for sale through the book trade. The WorldCat record for the paper edition manual is #45104130. The record now includes a link to the electronic version of the same resource.

Contents include the following chapters:

Protected area management and the role of research;
Research priorities and design of research programmes;
An introduction to samplilng;
An introduction to data analysis and interpretation;
Making observations and recording data;
Maps, compasses, GPS units and the principals of naviation;
Methods for recording the weather;
Collecting botanical specimens;
Vegetation inventory and description;
Information from animal tracks and trail;
Information from dead animals and their curation;
Necropsy procedures for wild animals;
Methods for assessing the status of animal populations;
Behavioural ecology data and its relevance for management;
Socio-economic dta and their relevance to protected area management;
Statistical techniques;
Presenting and conserving your findings;
Recommending reading;
List of boxes;
References cited in the text;
Index.

Steve 
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Steve Johnson
Manager, Bronx Zoo Library
Wildlife Conservation Society
sjohnson at wcs.org