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What is the Sample unit in marked animals |
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Individual animals with known identities. |
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What is the Response Variable in marked animals? |
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Things like alive or dead in a survival study. |
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What is the Predictor Variable in marked animals |
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In presence or absence studies, things like types of plants or water depth |
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What are the steps of designing a study? |
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Identify target population Identify potential study sites within the target populations Use a probabilistic sampling scheme to Identify actual study sites Identify trap sites within study sites |
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Beam keeps mouth open, fixed area |
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Use trawl doors to keep the mouth open through lateral pressure |
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What are some factors that influence gear choice? |
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Environmental influences Crew experience Behavior/ecology |
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What is the current used for electrofishing? |
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The number of individuals per unit space withing a particular area at a particular time |
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What is n2 in the Lincoln Peterson index? |
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Total number of individuals captured during a trapping season |
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What is m in the Lincoln Peterson index? |
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number of recaptured animals |
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What is n1 in the Lincoln Peterson index? |
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the total number of marked animals in the population |
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What is the detection probability formula in the Lincoln Peterson index? |
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What is the lincoln peterson formula? |
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N=((n1+1)(n2+1)/(m+1)) -1 |
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What is 1st order selection? |
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The physical range limit of a species? |
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What is second order selection? |
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Placement of home range within a species geographic range. |
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What is 3rd order selection? |
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Physical locations within an animals homerange. |
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The individual animal is identified |
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The individual animal is identified and intensley studied |
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What are eDNA primary sources? |
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egestion, excretion, secretion, exfoliation, reproduction, decomposition |
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What are eDNA secondary sources? |
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predators, scavengers, coprovores, detritrivores |
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Mark recapture techniques are used to study what? |
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Third order habitat selection refers to? |
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an animals physical location within a home range |
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You have counts of individuals within, and the proportion of area represented by each habitat. What statistics technique do you use? |
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The lincoln peterson estimator assumes what? |
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No mortalities during the study |
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Software for conducting advanced mark and recapture |
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Selection ratios are used to do what? |
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Determine if a habitat is used more or less than expected. |
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What account for imperfect detection when estimating abundance? |
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Lincoln peterson estimator |
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A type 1 design does not require what? |
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Does not require individual animals to be marked |
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When do you choose to use a chi square test? |
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Evaluate patterns of habitat selection? |
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What is a t-tests used for? |
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Compare the means of two categorical populations? |
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