Credit hours
In-class work per week |
Practice per week |
Credits |
Duration |
Total |
10 |
10 |
4 |
2 weeks |
60 hours |
Instructor
Adriano Garcia Chiarello
Objective
1. To provide to the students theoretical and practical background in techniques related to biodiversity sampling and population monitoring of vertebrates for conservation and management purposes;
2. To offer training in tools (free softwares) related to these study topics, including ESTIMATE S, DISTANCE SAMPLING, MARK and PRESENCE, among others.
Content
The course has a strong practical appeal, highlighting, however, paradigms, assumptions and concepts important for biodiversity surveys in general and for population monitoring in particular. Presented techniques and analyses are aimed at estimating parameters that are of utmost importance for wildlife monitoring and managing, namely: 1) biodiversity estimation (species richness estimators, rarefaction curves); 2) estimation of population abundance via line-transect sampling and through capture-marking-recapture protocols and 3) estimation of the probability of occupancy and detection of species. The course provides training at basic-intermediate levels in open access software traditionally used for the estimation of these parameters, including ESTIMATE S, DISTANCE SAMPLING, MARK and PRESENCE, among others.
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