Error, Power, and Blind Sentinels: The Statistics of Seagrass Monitoring.

We derive statistical properties of standard methods for monitoring of habitat cover worldwide, and criticize them in the context of mandated seagrass monitoring programs, as exemplified by Posidonia oceanica in the Mediterranean Sea. We report the novel result that cartographic methods with non-tri...

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Main Authors: Stewart T Schultz, Claudia Kruschel, Tatjana Bakran-Petricioli, Donat Petricioli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4569085?pdf=render