Accounting for imperfect detection is critical for inferring marine turtle nesting population trends.

Accounting for imperfect detection is critical for inferring marine turtle nesting population trends.

Assessments of population trends based on time-series counts of individuals are complicated by imperfect detection, which can lead to serious misinterpretations of data. Population trends of threatened marine turtles worldwide are usually based on counts of nests or nesting females. We analyze 39 ye...

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Main Authors: Joseph B Pfaller, Karen A Bjorndal, Milani Chaloupka, Kristina L Williams, Michael G Frick, Alan B Bolten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23638041/?tool=EBI

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