Effects of Roadside Transect Width on Waterfowl and Wetland Estimates

Figures

Figure 1 - County map of ND illustrating locations of study plots all located in the three topographical sections east of the Missouri River

Figure 1. Location of forty-five 40-km² plots in North Dakota, 1995.

Figure 2 - Illustration of Inner transect width (400-m area with road as the midline) and Outer transect width (200-m areas outside the Inner transect width)

Figure 2. Representation of transect and transect width samples for 40-km² plots.

Figure 3 - Line graph illustrating bias in wetland densities

Figure 3. Bias in wetland densities as a function of wetland area for 800-m and 400-m wide roadside transects. Bias is expressed as a proportion of actual density in 45 plots in North Dakota, 1995.

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