When is a species declining? optimizing survey effort to detect population changes in reptiles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Sewell, David ^a,b   Guillera Arroita, Gurutzeta ^a   Griffiths, Richard A ^a   Beebee, Trevor J C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMON LIZARD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRASS SNAKE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POWER ANALYSIS; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REPTILE; SAMPLE SIZE; SAND LIZARD; SLOW WORM; SMOOTH SNAKE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VIPER;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPTILES;

EID: 84865167628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043387     Document Type: Article

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