Advancing Terrestrial Salamander Population Ecology: The Central Role of Imperfect Detection

摘要: Abstract Terrestrial salamanders (Plethodontidae) are increasingly cited as important surrogates for monitoring forest ecosystem health and biodiversity. To accurately assess the ecological role of salamanders, total abundance is more relevant than population subset available sampling. Therefore, estimating detectability generating unbiased metrics, estimates average an order magnitude greater surface counts. The past two decades have seen a tremendous increase in analytical methods that account imperfect detection. unique physiological requirements activity patterns contribute to their inherently low detection levels, variable terminology makes it difficult compare parameter values across species, regions, methods, studies. It use consistent explicitly state what specific components being reported study. Availability ...