Unreliable population inferences from common trapping practices for freshwater turtles
Fundamental questions in ecology and conservation require reliable data about population size and structure. For freshwater turtles, such data are often obtained via mark–recapture trapping, but commonly used trap types are biased in the sex and age classes they sample although these biases are seld...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2015-01-01
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Series: | Global Ecology and Conservation |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989415000372 |