Wildlife By The Numbers Episode 2 Random Sampling Challenges and Examples

Delving into the significance of random sampling, hosts Matt, Grant, and Randy, use real-world examples to illustrate challenges associated with sampling, stressing the importance of random sampling for accurate representations of wildlife populations.

Episode quotes

"...my question for the group is, do you think, they can actually achieve their objectives with a sample size of one, with one transect inside a particular city. Do you think they can achieve that at the city scale?"

" Inside that rectangle, they're placing, camera traps to monitor species richness across that gradient of habitat from the lowlands to the uplands."

"...so to bring this home from where we began (referring back to episode 1), we had a garden with tomatoes in it, and now we have a city with wildlife in it. And so the garden area is is akin to our city area, and our the number of tomatoes in the garden that we wanna know the number of is is a parallel to the wildlife we want to sample in that city."

Episode music: Shapeshifter by Mr Smith is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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