Books and papers

Books

A book discussing practical considerations, along with developments in the decade 2004-2014 can be found in the book:

• Buckland, S.T., Rexstad, E., Marques, T.A. and Oedekoven, C.S. 2015. Distance Sampling: Methods and Applications. Springer, Heidelberg. Accompanying website with case studies.

The core concepts of distance sampling analysis are described in:

• Buckland, S.T., Anderson, D.R., Burnham, K.P., Laake, J.L., Borchers, D.L. and Thomas, L. 2001. Introduction to Distance Sampling: Estimating Abundance of Biological Populations. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

The previous edition of this book, published in 1993 is available online for free:

• Buckland, S.T., Anderson, D.R., Burnham, K.P. and Laake, J.L. 1993. Distance Sampling: Estimating Abundance of Biological Populations. Chapman and Hall, London.

Advanced topics in distance sampling analysis are described in:

• Buckland, S.T., Anderson, D.R., Burnham, K.P., Laake, J.L., Borchers, D.L. and Thomas, L. (Editors) 2004. Advanced Distance Sampling. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

Papers

An introductory article is available here:

• Marques, T.A., S.T. Buckland, D.L. Borchers, E. Rexstad and L. Thomas. 2011. Distance sampling. Pp 398-400 in Lovric, M. (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04898-2_214

Additionally, the Open Access paper:

• Thomas, L., S.T. Buckland, E.A. Rexstad, J. L. Laake, S. Strindberg, S. L. Hedley, J. R.B. Bishop, T. A. Marques, and K. P. Burnham. 2010. Distance software: design and analysis of distance sampling surveys for estimating population size. Journal of Applied Ecology 47: 5-14. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2009.01737.x

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