General Herpetological Collecting is Size-Biased for Five Pacific Lizards

摘要: Abstract Accurate estimation of a species' size distribution is key component characterizing its ecology, evolution, physiology, and demography. We compared the body distributions five Pacific lizards (Carlia ailanpalai, Emoia caeruleocauda, Gehyra mutilata, Hemidactylus frenatus, Lepidodactylus lugubris) from general herpetological collecting (including visual surveys glue boards) with those complete censuses obtained by total removal. All species exhibited same pattern: undersampled juveniles oversampled mid-sized adults. The bias was greatest for smallest not statistically evident newly maturing very large true these continuously breeding were skewed heavily toward juveniles, more so than detections collecting. A strongly well characterized mean or maximum, though are statistics routi...