Complete and Sampled Counts
- Mark-recapture:
- mark resight: used for large animals or other animals that are not good to recapture
- Distance Sampling: plot and line samples; incomplete counts are corrected by visibility bias. Stand and look. Doesn't sound legit.
- Indicies: instead of counting the number of animals, count their "effects" (footprints, etc).
- Field methods for fish:
- Pilot studies should be done first
- Sampling should extensive, not intensively based
- Fish distribution is different than for other animals--they are clumped tightly (they Hilborne and Walters, 1992)