Baited remote underwater stereo‐video systems (stereo‐BRUVs) are a popular tool to
sample demersal fish assemblages and gather data on their relative abundance and body …

Traditional ecological monitoring employs fixed designs, which do not vary over the survey
duration. Adaptive sampling, whereby the data already collected informs a sampling design …

Abstract spsurvey is an R package for design-based statistical inference, with a focus on
spatial data. spsurvey provides the generalized random-tessellation stratified (GRTS) …

Spatial predictive methods are increasingly being used to generate predictions across
various disciplines in environmental sciences. Accuracy of the predictions is critical as they …

Population size is a crucial parameter for both ecological research and conservation
planning. When individuals are aggregated, estimating the size of a population through …

A new spatially balanced sampling design for environmental surveys is introduced, called
Halton iterative partitioning (HIP). The design draws sample locations that are well spread …

The marine region around Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the eastern
Indian Ocean includes a large number of under-researched seamounts. Here novel …

Many sampling techniques rely on taking measurements along a transect; an example is
underwater imagery from towed platforms used for marine ecological studies. Despite …

Substantial effort has been dedicated to developing reliable monitoring schemes for North
American bird populations, but our ability to monitor bird populations in the boreal forest …

Well‐designed environmental monitoring programmes for management organisations are
important for evidence‐based decision making. However, many environmental problems are …