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Description:This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. We used the proposed model to evaluate how stochastic detection rates affect minimum effort requirements for surveying protocols. The different sizes of individuals were not accounted for in the optimization. These predicted optima were compared to the number that would have actually maximized detection of the two species during the second experiment. When the objective was to maximize the expected probability of detection, variability in the detection rate among surveys, expressed as the coefficient of variation, was important. This variation in the density of species among quadrats caused the rate of detection of species to vary among quadrats [36].

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