In recent decades marine reserves have been established throughout the world as a
management tool for compensating the effects of overfishing on coastal marine stocks …

The status of many carnivore populations is of growing concern to scientists and
conservationists, making the need for data pertaining to carnivore distribution, abundance …

This document presents the findings of the Working Group on Global Land Cover Validation,
a topical group within the Land Product Validation (LPV) subgroup of the Working Group on …

Interest in natural resources and the environment has led to the development of new federal
monitoring efforts, the expansion of existing federal inventory programmes, and discussions …

Presenting a nonmathematical approach to this topic, Statistics for Environmental Science
and Management introduces frequently used statistical methods and practical applications …

The United Nations framework convention on climate change (FCCC) commits signatory
nations to monitor changes in all fluxes and sinks of carbon, including those related to …

Abstract The US Geological Survey Land Change Monitoring, Assessment and Projection
(USGS LCMAP) initiative is working toward a comprehensive capability to characterize land …

We examine the degree to which field observers can meet the assumptions underlying line
transect sampling to monitor populations of desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii). We …

We flew aerial line‐transect surveys to estimate the range‐wide population size of lesser
prairie‐chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) in the Great Plains, United States in 2012 …

A global validation database that can be used to assess the accuracy of multiple global and
regional land-cover maps would yield significant cost savings and enhance comparisons of …