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Distance sampling methods have been successfully applied to estimate density or abundance of populations of a large variety of taxa ranging across many habitats. These are typically very cost-effective methods, especially for species which occur at low densities over large areas. Methods are nonetheless not a panacea, and in many circumstances, assumption violation, and hence bias, might be severe.
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Buckland, S.T., Rexstad, E.A., Marques, T.A., Oedekoven, C.S. (2015). Summary. In: Distance Sampling: Methods and Applications. Methods in Statistical Ecology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19219-2_12
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