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Product DescriptionOffers a comprehensive introduction to distance sampling, a statistical method used by many biologists and conservationists to estimate animal abundance. The text discusses point transect sampling and line transect sampling and also describes several other related techniques. There are updateson study design and field methods, laser range finders, theodolites and the GPS and advice is given on a wide range of survey methods. Analysis methods have also been generalized, through the use of various types of multiplier and exercises for students in wildlife and conservation management areincluded.About the AuthorSteven Buckland, University of St Andrews. David Anderson, Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Colorado. Ken Burnham, Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Colorado.