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Figure 1.1 shows the result of survey conducted to estimate the number of plants in a 50m by 100m field. The dots represent detected plants. An eighth of the survey region (the shaded rectangles) was searched so if we were sure every plant in the shaded rectangles was detected, it would be reasonable to assume that about an eighth of the plants in the field were detected. This would lead us to estimate that there were 200 plants present.
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Borchers, D.L., Buckland, S.T., Zucchini, W. (2002). Introduction. In: Estimating Animal Abundance. Statistics for Biology and Health. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3708-5_1
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