Making Great Leaps Forward: Accounting for Detectability in Herpetological Field Studies

By M. Mazerolle, L. Bailey, W. Kendall, J. Andrew Royle, Sarah J. Converse, James D. Nichols. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Statistics and Probability

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Citations in the corpus

Imperfect detection and its consequences for monitoring for conservation (2008, background): “Three attitudes towards possible complications engendered by the fact of p < 1 are observed: ignorance, standardisation, and estimation (Schmidt 2004, Mazerolle et al. 2007).”
Long-term effects of experimental forest harvesting on abundance and reproductive demography of terrestrial salamanders (2009, methodology): “We continued to utilize relative abundance indices to provide continuity with prior data collection on EUs (Harpole and Haas, 1999; Knapp et al., 2003), and we assume that expected capture probabilities were approximately equal across all EUs, years, and species complexes (Yoccoz et al., 2001; Pollo”
Small mammal responses to coarse woody debris distribution at different spatial scales in managed and unmanaged boreal forests (2012, methodology): “Although N-mixture models can deal with counts and imperfect detection (Royle, 2004), our design was nested, potentially invalidating the independence assumption for fine-scale analyses (Royle, 2004; Mazerolle et al., 2007).”
Needles in haystacks: Estimating detection probability and occupancy of rare and cryptic snakes (2011, methodology): “Site occupancy (presence/absence) modeling is recognized as an effective technique for monitoring populations of secretive species on a landscape scale (Harvey, 2005; Lõhmus, 2009; MacKenzie et al., 2003; Mazerolle et al., 2007), historically considered a daunting or even impossible task.”
A Synthesis of Evidence of Drivers of Amphibian Declines (2020, methodology): “After the Mazerolle et al. (2007) paper about the detection issue in amphibian studies, herpetologists began to implement methods to deal with the potential bias systematically.”
Do cave features affect underground habitat exploitation by non-troglobite species? (2014, background): “However, amphibian activity strongly depends on weather conditions, being for instance more intense during rainy periods (Mazerolle et al., 2007).”