Monitoring rocky shores /
Monitoring changes in the intertidal zone of rocky shores has never been more critical. This sensitive habitat at the interface of land and ocean may well be the marine equivalent of the canary in a coal mine as we advance into an era of global climate change. This handbook describes effective metho...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
2006.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp1bd |
Obsah:
- Designing rocky intertidal monitoring and impact field studies: a brief overview
- Site classification and selection
- Biological units
- Sampling design
- Transects, quadrats, and other sampling units
- Quantifying abundance: density and cover
- Quantifying abundance: biomass
- Individual-based parameters: age determination, growth rates, size structure, and reproduction.