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1. Study the 3 diagrams showing hypothetical moose populations with 2 different dispersion pattern.
Describe how the moose are dispersed in each diagram
2. The shaded portions of the diagrams show the transects that were used to sample each population.
What proportion of the total study area (defined by the box) was sampled in each of the three cases?
3. Count the number of moose encountered within the transect areas for each case. Do not count the total number of moose in any of the diagrams. From these counts, estimate the size of the 3 moose populations.
4. The actual numbers of moose in the 3 populations are 60, 133 & 133, respectively. How close were your estimates? What do you think affected the accuracy of the estimates in each case?
5. How would you design a sampling experiment on a wild population? Note that in real life, the time & expense involved usually restricts the proportion sampled to between 10-20% of the total area of interest.
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