Evaluating Multi-Level Models to Test Occupancy State Responses of Plethodontid Salamanders
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Evaluating Multi-Level Models to Test Occupancy State Responses of Plethodontid Salamanders.
Plethodontid salamanders are diverse and widely distributed taxa and play critical roles in ecosystem processes. Due to salamander use of structurally complex habitats, and because only a portion of a population is available for sampling, evaluation of sampling designs and estimators is critical to provide strong inference about Plethodontid ecology and responses to conservation and management ...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142903