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Spider monkeys, the misunderstood assumptions of distance sampling and the pitfalls of poor field design

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TAM thanks partial support by CEAUL (funded by FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal, through the project UID/MAT/00006/2019).

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  1. Departamento de Engenharia e Meio Ambiente, Universidade Federal da Paraiba, Rio Tinto, Brazil

    Antonio Christian de Andrade

  2. Centre of Urban Enviroments, University of Toronto Mississauga, Toronto, Canada

    Antonio Christian de Andrade

  3. Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK

    Tiago A. Marques & Stephen T. Buckland

  4. Departamento de Biologia Animal, Centro de Estatística e Aplicações, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Tiago A. Marques

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de Andrade, A.C., Marques, T.A. & Buckland, S.T. Spider monkeys, the misunderstood assumptions of distance sampling and the pitfalls of poor field design. Biodivers Conserv 28, 4119–4121 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-019-01872-y

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