Survey Methods
This interactive introduces students to a variety of techniques used by ecologists to survey animal populations using the African elephant as an example. Elephants are the world’s largest land mammal, a keystone species, and their populations are under threat due to poaching and habitat loss.
Topics
- survey method
- sampling
- acoustic survey
- aerial survey
- dung
- elephant
- field ecology
- keystone species
- population
- sample
- species range
- transection