Accounting for imperfect detection in species with sessile life cycle stages: a case study of bumble bee colonies
D. Iles, G. Pugesek, N. Z. Kerr, N. N. Dorian, E. E. Crone
The paper estimates bumble bee colony density using mark-recapture methods, showing that imperfect detection can bias results and that mark-recapture provides unbiased estimates with lower effort.
bioRxiv · Jan 18, 2019Ecology