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SUBMITTER: Campos Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4880199 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Campos Zilca Z Magnusson William E WE
PloS one 20160525 5
Direct counts of crocodilians are rarely feasible and it is difficult to meet the assumptions of mark-recapture methods for most species in most habitats. Catch-out experiments are also usually not logistically or morally justifiable because it would be necessary to destroy the habitat in order to be confident that most individuals had been captured. We took advantage of the draining and filling of a large area of flooded forest during the building of the Santo Antônio dam on the Madeira River t ...[more]