Statistical Guide to Data Analysis of Avian Monitoring Programs: Biological Technical Publication

This Guide is intended to provide guidance to field biologists wishing to analyze data collected onterrestrial bird populations, as part of an avianpopulation monitoring program. A second objectiveis to provide information that will help biologists design such programs. The audience is similar to that for the Handbook of Field Methods(Ralph etal.1993), the Monitoring Bird Populations by Point Counts(Ralph et al.1995), and in many ways this Statistical Guide to Data Analysis of Avian Monitoring Programscan be a useful complement to the field methods handbook. At the same time,we feel this Statistical Guide can be of use to field biologists studying other organisms besidesterrestrial birds. In our view, all field biologists will benefit from taking the equivalent of 2 or 3 semester courses in statistics and we assume thatreaders of this guide have completed at least this basic level in statistics.