Estimating Muricid abundances from trapping methods used in Mediterranean Tyrian Purple industry
J Coston-Guarini, JM Guarini, Frederike Ricarda Boehm, Thomas R. H. Kerkhove, Frances Camille Rivera, Karim Erzini, François Charles, Tim Deprez, Laurent Chauvaud
The paper introduces a stochastic dynamic model to estimate murcid population densities from trapping data, finding an average density of 2.2 individuals per square meter with no habitat difference.
bioRxiv · Jul 24, 2017 · PreprintEcology