Gregoire T.G., Valentine H.T. Sampling Strategies for Natural Resources and the Environment

CRC Press, 2007. — 480 p. — (Applied environmental statistics). — ISBN: 0203498887, 9780203498880This book is aimed at students and researchers of ecology, natural resources, forestry, or environmental sciences who need to know how to sample natural populations and continuums in a credible manner. The presumed purpose is to estimate, with quantifiable precision, aggregate characteristics of such resources
that cannot be measured completely. We present and discuss methods to estimate aggregate characteristics on per unit area basis, say per hectare, as well as on an elemental basis. While some of the sampling designs, e.g., simple random sampling and list sampling, that we present in this book may be found in virtually any text on sampling, others, e.g., randomized branch sampling and 3P sampling, are rather specialized and have evolved specifically for sampling vegetation.Sampling Distribution of an Estimator
Sampling Designs for Discrete Populations
Sampling Designs for Continuous Populations
Stratified Sampling Designs
Using Auxiliary Information to Improve Estimation
Sampling with Fixed Area Plots
Bitterlich Sampling
Line Intersect Sampling
A Monte Carlo Integration Approach to Areal Sampling
Miscellaneous Methods
Two-stage Sampling
Randomized Branch Sampling
Sampling with Partial Replacement