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For most of this book, we assume that the main objective is to estimate abundance of the population of interest. Sometimes, we might instead wish to assess the effects (if any) of a management regime or a development on population densities. For example, does spraying a forest block with pesticide to eradicate an insect pest have a detrimental effect on songbird densities? Or does a proposed conservation measure in farmland have the desired effect on species of conservation concern?
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Buckland, S.T., Rexstad, E.A., Marques, T.A., Oedekoven, C.S. (2015). Designing Distance Sampling Experiments. In: Distance Sampling: Methods and Applications. Methods in Statistical Ecology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19219-2_3
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