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Fox Infestation Paper

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Fox infestation is identified as a key management issue because it prevents the establishment of seedlings of trees, and the management recommended a population reduction strategy. Therefore, a sampling survey should be designed to estimate the population of the fox.
Sampling methods designed used to measure the density and dispersion of sessile organisms (plants and abrasions). Obviously different methods need to measure a large number of organisms that can move. A large number of techniques exist for sampling and estimating population movements of organisms. For this design, the mark-recapture method is especially suitable for large invertebrates and vertebrates.
In this design, I will perform a simulation that will allow us to examine the impact of the sampling work on the final estimate. I will also have the opportunity to estimate the population size of fox using Mark recapture technique (Anon, 2015). These methods include a subset of the marker population, closely followed by the relative number of marked and unmarked individual. This approach is less accurate than the crude oil in the census, but it takes less time and expense than a detailed plan. …show more content…

Therefore, simple counting or plot sampling techniques to determine the size of the population is useless. Therefore, a method involving the individual has been developed. The most common method is the Lincoln-Peterson method. During marking period, individuals were captured and applied to their bodies. Mark a fox and then release. After one or two month (long enough to allow reallocation of the fox to random), individuals of fox in the mobile population capture and count again. The second group called the census population. There would be marked foxes earlier and others will be unmarked. It's important that track the number of marked foxes and the number of unmarked foxes in the

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