Variable detectability in long-term population surveys of small mammals

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Variable detectability in long-term population surveys of small mammals

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Simple survey methods for small mammals, such as indices of trap captures per unit effort, are often the only practicable means of monitoring populations over the long term and at landscape scale and the only source of valuable historical data. They include two fundamental assumptions about the target populations (uniform distribution and equal detectability). Concern has often been expressed that, if these assumptions are violated, conventional density indices could give misleading results. ...

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Date created

2009

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Watkins, Alison Fern / McWhirter, Judith L. / King, Carolyn M.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/4043

Related subjects

abundance / density indices / distribution / site occupancy modelling / small mammals

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