Prediction of wildlife and fish resources for national assessments and appraisals.

Abstract

The ecological analysis techniques discussed are useful in models to assess the renewable resources of the nation's forests, rangelands, agricultural lands and associated waters. Outputs of the techniques are habitat quality, habitat quantity, population occurrence, population quantities and population age-, size- and sex-structure. Types of analytical techniques included are expert opinion, habitat quality indexes, regression analyses, multivariate analyses, pattern recognition procedure with Bayesian statistics, life table analyses, Leslie matrix analyses, and models of harvest, population dynamics, predator-prey, systems ecology, linear programing, linear equations, difference equations, and differential equations.-from Authors