Field Sampling for Environmental Science and Management

ISBN-13: 9781849713689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 192 str.

Richard Webster

Opis

Scientists and consultants need to estimate and map properties of the terrestrial environment. These include plant nutrients and parasites in soil, gaseous emissions from soil, pollutant metals and xenobiotics in waste and contaminated land, salt in groundwater and species abundances above ground. The scale varies from small experimental plots to catchments, and the land may be enclosed in fields or be open grassland, forest or desert. The authors draw the important distinction between design-based sampling for estimating means and model-based methods (geostatistics) for local spatial prediction and mapping, and focus on the latter. They describe designs suitable for computing variograms and prediction by kriging, as well as a staged approach, so that sampling is neither inadequate nor excessive, and designs adapt as knowledge is accumulated. Including numerous worked case studies of sampling in agriculture, ecology and environmental science, the book will be of immediate practical value.

Recenzje

"The book is written in a very educational style with a practical lay-out allowing easy access. Every chapter is introduced by a box overviewing its key points and most contain practical worked examples using real-world data. A sample data set is also provided. Most of the material discussed is backed-up by previously published papers by the authors and hence extra information is available if needed. The book clearly achieves its objective. It is highly recommended to all researchers whohave to sample and find the standard text books too complicated. It is also a perfect book for students in many disciplines."–Marc Van Meirvenne, Ghent University

Spis treści

1. Introduction.  2. Aims and Concepts.  3. Simple Random Sampling.  4. Efficiency, Economy and Logistics.  5. Prediction from Spatial Classifications.  6. Sampling from Designed Experiments.  7. Sampling for Regression and Calibration.  8. Nested Sampling and Analysis.  9. Geostatistics - Model-based Prediction