Euan, Most sampling designs, regardless of geographic location, are taxon specific so it would be useful to know what group your friend is working with. Always good to run some analyses with preliminary data. For animals this would involve SR repeated sampling to estimate both detection probabilities and sampling adequacy.
A good paper to start with is Colwell, R. K., and J. A. Coddington. 1994. Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B 345:101-118. Go to http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/EstimateS7Pages/PubsThatCiteEstS.htm is a good place to search for papers too as well as link to the software program EstimateS. If you do repeated sampling (over time), I don't think EstimateS handles this but CAPTURE/MARK does. Hope this helps, Jeff **************************************** Jeffrey A. Stratford, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate 331 Funchess Hall Department of Biological Sciences Auburn University Auburn, AL 36849 334-329-9198 FAX 334-844-9234 http://www.auburn.edu/~stratja **************************************** >>> "Landis, R Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/25/05 9:33 AM >>> For basic issues of sampling and statistics, an excellent resource is the recent book by Peter Feinsinger, Designing Field Studies for Biodiversity Conservation (Island Press, 2001). Matt Landis **************************************************** R. Matthew Landis, Ph.D. Dept. Biology Middlebury College Middlebury, VT 05753 tel.: 802.443.3484 ************************************************** >-----Original Message----- >From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Euan Ritchie >Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 11:36 PM >To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU >Subject: sampling design > >I have a friend who is about to undertake research with a volunteer >organisation in Nicaragua and is looking for a review(s) dealing with >sampling design/methods for biodiversity research, particularly in >rainforests. I have searched databases and turned up very little. Can >anybody please suggest some good references? > >Regards, >Euan > >Euan Ritchie - PhD Candidate >The macroecology and conservation of the antilopine wallaroo (Macropus >antilopinus) >Mammal Ecology Laboratory (room 152) >School of Tropical Biology >James Cook University >Townsville, Qld 4811 Australia >Phone: (07) 47 815715 >Fax: (07) 47 251570 > >http://www.jcu.edu.au/school/tropbiol/postgrad/ritchie_e/ >http://www.apscience.org.au/projects/APSF_01_2/apsf_01_2.htm >http://savanna.ntu.edu.au/education/students/antilopine_wallaroo.html > >*************************************************************** >******************************************************* >"YOU ARE EITHER AN ECOLOGIST OR A LOST SOUL" Thomas Moore >*************************************************************** >******************************************************* > >
