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dc.contributor.authorBuckland, Stephen Terrence
dc.contributor.authorPlumptre, A J
dc.contributor.authorThomas, Len
dc.contributor.authorRexstad, Eric
dc.date.accessioned2011-07-22T10:30:11Z
dc.date.available2011-07-22T10:30:11Z
dc.date.issued2010-06
dc.identifier.citationBuckland , S T , Plumptre , A J , Thomas , L & Rexstad , E 2010 , ' Line transect sampling of primates : can animal-to-observer distance methods work? ' , International Journal of Primatology , vol. 31 , no. 3 , pp. 485-499 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-010-9408-4en
dc.identifier.issn0164-0291
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 458818
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: c20f12db-1a8b-45b3-af33-904da6750617
dc.identifier.otherstandrews_research_output: 31419
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 77952420417
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000277641900009
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-7436-067X/work/29591715
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-4323-8161/work/29574872
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-9939-709X/work/73700976
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/1926
dc.descriptionAn erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10764-010-9469-4en
dc.description.abstractLine transect sampling is widely used for estimating abundance of primate populations. Animal-to-observer distances (AODs) are commonly used in analysis, in preference to perpendicular distances from the line. This is in marked contrast with standard practice for other applications of line transect sampling. We formalize the mathematical shortcomings of approaches based on AODs, and show that they are likely to give strongly biased estimates of density. We review papers that claim good performance for the method, and explore this performance through simulations. These confirm strong bias in estimates of density using AODs. We conclude that AOD methods are conceptually flawed, and that they cannot in general provide valid estimates of density.
dc.format.extent15
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Primatologyen
dc.rights© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010. This is an author version of the article. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.comen
dc.subjectanimal-to-observer distancesen
dc.subjectDistance samplingen
dc.subjectEstimating primate densityen
dc.subjectKelker stripen
dc.subjectModified Kelker methoden
dc.subjectPrimate surveyen
dc.subjectQA Mathematicsen
dc.subject.lccQAen
dc.titleLine transect sampling of primates : can animal-to-observer distance methods work?en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Marine Alliance for Science & Technology Scotlanden
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Mathematics and Statisticsen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Instituteen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Research into Ecological & Environmental Modellingen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-010-9408-4
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.creem.st-and.ac.uk/len/papers/BucklandIJP2009a.pdfen


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