Dealing with trade-offs in destructive sampling designs for occupancy surveys.

Occupancy surveys should be designed to minimise false absences. This is commonly achieved by increasing replication or increasing the efficiency of surveys. In the case of destructive sampling designs, in which searches of individual microhabitats represent the repeat surveys, minimising false abse...

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Main Authors: Stefano Canessa, Geoffrey W Heard, Peter Robertson, Ian R K Sluiter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4356509?pdf=render