Model-based approaches to deal with detectability: a comment on Hutto (2016)
Ecological Applications
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Abstract
In a recent paper, Hutto (2016a) challenges the need to account for detectability when interpreting data from point counts. A number of issues with model-based approaches to deal with detectability are presented, and an alternative suggested: surveying an area around each point over which detectability is assumed certain. The article contains a number of false claims and errors of logic, and we address these here. We provide suggestions about appropriate uses of distance sampling and occupancy modeling, arising from an intersection of design- and model-based inference.
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Marques, T.A., Thomas, L., Kery, M., Buckland, S.T., Borchers, D.L., Rexstad, E., Fewster, R.M., MacKenzie, D.I., Royle, A., Guillera-Arroita, G., Handel, C.M., Pavlacky, D., and Camp, R., 2017, Model-based approaches to deal with detectability: a comment on Hutto (2016): Ecological Applications, v. 27, no. 5, p. 1694-1698, https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1553.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Model-based approaches to deal with detectability: a comment on Hutto (2016) |
| Series title | Ecological Applications |
| DOI | 10.1002/eap.1553 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Publication Date | June 12, 2017 |
| Year Published | 2017 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Ecological Society of America |
| Contributing office(s) | Patuxent Wildlife Research Center |
| Description | 5 p. |
| First page | 1694 |
| Last page | 1698 |