The risks of learning: confounding detection and demographic trend when using count‐based indices for population monitoring
Abstract Theory recognizes that a treatment of the detection process is required to avoid producing biased estimates of population rate of change. Still, one of three monitoring programmes on animal or plant populations is focused on simply counting individuals or other fixed visible structures, suc...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Ecology and Evolution |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1258 |