How much effort should be employed for surveying a low-diversity Amazonian mammal assemblage using line-transects?

Line-transect surveys are commonly used for sampling large mammals, but estimates of the effort needed to reliably surveying low-diversity assemblages of mammals are scarce. Using data from line-transects and species accumulation curves, I examined whether or not a sampling effort previously suggest...

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Main Author: Ítalo Mourthé
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia 2013-02-01
Series:Zoologia (Curitiba)
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-46702013000100016