Title
Monitoring Elephant Populations and Assessing Threats: manual for researchers, managers and conservationists
Author(s)
Hedges, S.
Published
2012
Abstract
This peer-reviewed manual presents a conceptually-unified and statistically rigorous approach to monitoring elephant populations. The authors, who between them have many decades of experience in statistics, wildlife monitoring and elephant conservation work in Asia and Africa, present an array of methods for estimating elephant population size and distribution and for monitoring threats. The manual contains a pair of chapters for each of the major methods covered, with the first of the pair covering the underlying theory and the second covering practical field methods and recommendations. However, the practical chapters have been written so as to be as 'standalone' as possible; in other words, it should be possible to read a practical chapter and gain a good idea of how to use a particular method in the field without necessarily reading the entire theoretical chapter. This manual represents, therefore, a practical tool that will help address current elephant population monitoring needs and which will be of use to wildlife managers, conservationists and elephant researchers.

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