Suggested readings
The BOOC (Book - Open Online Courses) is an important addition to the MOOC. It summarises the course per sequence. You can download the BOOC here.
For this MOOC we also recommend Guidelines to monotoring populations and Species inventory fundamentals. The following documents are destined to help you go deeper in the course. They are an important complement if you wish to understand the topics in more detail, but reading them is not compulsory. Feel free to read at least the ones that are related to your field of interest or to your work.
Module 1
- Sequences 1.1 to 1.6: Basics for monitoring
- Sequences 1.1 to 1.11: Decision tree for monitoring
- Sequences 1.1 to 1.11: The science of monitoring
- Sequence 1.5: Example of ecological attributes (USA)
- Sequences 1.5 to 1.9: Evaluating threats, impacts and standards
Module 2
- “Statistical terms”, from de "Biodiversity Handbook for Monitoring"
- "Analyse data", from "Guidelines for biodiversity assessment and monitoring of protected areas"
- "Analyse data" & "Hypothesis testing", from "Species inventory fundamentals"
Module 3
- Sequence 3.5: Monitoring of plants population
- Sequence 3.5: Monitoring of Tropical Forest
- Sequence 3.6: Distance Sampling
- Sequence 3.6: Example of Distance Sampling in Yabello Wildlife Sanctuary (Ethiopia)
- Sequence 3.6: Limitations of Distance Sampling in Akagera NP
- Sequence 3.6 and 3.7: Medium and large mammal monitoring
- Sequence 3.6-10: Monitoring wildlife
- Sequence 3.6 to 3.11: Technical manual for multiple species inventories
- Sequence 3.10: Aerial census
- Sequence 3.10: Aerial monitoring manual
Module 4
- Sequence 4.2: Monitoring Rangeland Health
- Sequence 4.2: Scale of monitoring -remote sensing
- Sequence 4.2: Working at the ecoregion scale
- Sequences 4.3 to 4.10: Multiple species monitoring guide
- Sequences 4.4 to 4.7: Example of inventories in North Cameroon
- Sequence 4.8: Monitoring waterbirds
- Sequence 4.9: Monitoring elephant populations
- Sequence 4.10: Most common Surveying Sins