Aerial systematic sampling applied to censuses of large mammal populations in Kenya

dc.contributor.author	Pennycuick, CJ
dc.contributor.author	Sale, JB
dc.contributor.author	Price, M Stanley
dc.contributor.author	Jolly, GM
dc.date.accessioned	2015-09-22T10:36:29Z
dc.date.available	2015-09-22T10:36:29Z
dc.date.issued	1977
dc.identifier.citation	African Journal of Ecology Volume 15, Issue 2, pages 139–146, June 1977	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1977.tb00387.x/abstract
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11295/91310
dc.description.abstract	Four systematic sample censuses are described, one of elephants in Tsavo East National Park, and three of kongoni on the Athi-Kapiti Plains. Flight paths in the form of a regular grid with 5-km spacing were used. Distribution maps from each census are shown. A statistical test is described, which revealed the presence in two of the censuses of non-random features in the spatial distribution of the animals, on a scale large enough to interact with the sampling grid. It is recognized that this could lead to an inflated estimate of variance, as compared to that which would be obtained from a stratified random sample, but it is thought unlikely that any effect of this kind would be appreciable in practice.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Nairobi	en_US
dc.title	Aerial systematic sampling applied to censuses of large mammal populations in Kenya	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
dc.type.material	en	en_US