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Few beetle species can be detected with 95% confidence using pitfall-traps

Date

Authors

Driscoll, Don

Publisher

Blackwell Science Asia

Abstract

False absences in wildlife surveys make it difficult to identify metapopulation processes, increase uncertainty of management decisions and bias parameter estimates in habitat models. Despite these risks, the number of species that can be detected with a

Keywords

Keywords: beetle; metapopulation; pitfall trap; probability; rainforest; sampling; species occurrence; Australia; Tasmania; Coleoptera; Invertebrata Coleoptera; Detection probability; False absence; Metapopulation; Sampling effort; Survey design

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/60813

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Austral Ecology

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.02007.x

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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