The costs of evaluating species densities and composition of snakes to assess development impacts in amazonia.

Studies leading to decision-making for environmental licensing often fail to provide accurate estimates of diversity. Measures of snake diversity are regularly obtained to assess development impacts in the rainforests of the Amazon Basin, but this taxonomic group may be subject to poor detection pro...

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Main Authors: Rafael de Fraga, Adam J Stow, William E Magnusson, Albertina P Lima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/25147930/pdf/?tool=EBI