Author: Tiffany MorganPublisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811742423
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Offers expert instruction and in-the-field advice for the novice and experienced tracker.
Field Guide to Animal Tracks and Scat of California
Author: Lawrence Mark ElbrochPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520951646
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Spotting an animal’s fresh footprints in the wild can conjure a world for the hiker: Why did the deer tracks disappear? Where did the cougar turn off the trail? What does it mean when two sets of footprints seem to coincide? This beautifully illustrated field guide, the first devoted to the tracks and signs of California animals—including birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates like spiders and beetles—blends meticulous science with field experience to provide an engaging companion for both armchair exploration and easy field identification. Filled with useful tools for the wildlife expert, and essential background and visual aids for the novice, including in-depth information about the ecology of each species, this book goes beyond basic recognition of types to interpret what animals leave behind as a way of "seeing" how they move through the world.
Author: James C. HalfpennyPractical Tracking
Author: Mark ElbrochPublisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811741273
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Techniques from international tracking experts applicable to any quarry and terrain. How to follow and find elk, deer, bears, cougars, lions, elephants, leopards, rhinos, and cape buffalo.
Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest
Author: David MoskowitzPublisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 0881929492
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
It's possible to safely see fascinating wildlife—if you know what to look for and where, and if you understand what you see—whether you are far from civilization or right in your own backyard. Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest includes illustrated descriptions for more than 180 mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates most common in Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, northern California, Idaho, and western Montana. With more than 460 photographs, hundreds of scale drawings, and more than 90 distribution maps. This book belongs in every pack and is a must-have for nature lovers of all ages and skill levels.
Author: Louis LiebenbergTracker's Field Guide
Author: James LoweryPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493004735
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Jim Lowery is among North America's leading tracking experts. In this book he distills his remarkable expertise, gained over decades of intensive research and practical field experience, into a comprehensive field guide to tracking North American mammals. Fully illustrated with hundreds of drawings and high-resolution photographs, The Tracker's Field Guide sets a new standard for tracking books.
The Comprehensive Guide to Tracking
Author: Cleve CheneyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781571574275
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tracking is an art form as well as a skill. But it is an art that can be taught and a skill that can be acquired. Cleve Cheney, a master at tracking both animals and humans, defines tracking as "learning to use all your senses to monitor your surroundings and to make logical and realistic deductions from what you have observed." He has brought together a massive amount of information on the how, when, and where of tracking.
Spatial Database for GPS Wildlife Tracking Data
Author: Ferdinando UrbanoPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3319037439
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This book guides animal ecologists, biologists and wildlife and data managers through a step-by-step procedure to build their own advanced software platforms to manage and process wildlife tracking data. This unique, problem-solving-oriented guide focuses on how to extract the most from GPS animal tracking data, while preventing error propagation and optimizing analysis performance. Based on the open source PostgreSQL/PostGIS spatial database, the software platform will allow researchers and managers to integrate and harmonize GPS tracking data together with animal characteristics, environmental data sets, including remote sensing image time series, and other bio-logged data, such as acceleration data. Moreover, the book shows how the powerful R statistical environment can be integrated into the software platform, either connecting the database with R, or embedding the same tools in the database through the PostgreSQL extension Pl/R. The client/server architecture allows users to remotely connect a number of software applications that can be used as a database front end, including GIS software and WebGIS. Each chapter offers a real-world data management and processing problem that is discussed in its biological context; solutions are proposed and exemplified through ad hoc SQL code, progressively exploring the potential of spatial database functions applied to the respective wildlife tracking case. Finally, wildlife tracking management issues are discussed in the increasingly widespread framework of collaborative science and data sharing. GPS animal telemetry data from a real study, freely available online, are used to demonstrate the proposed examples. This book is also suitable for undergraduate and graduate students, if accompanied by the basics of databases.
Author: Mark Elbroch