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DataDrivenEcologicalSynthesis / VirtualBiogeography

Analyzing the biogeographical accuracy of 🐠Finding Nemo🐡
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Large groups #32

Closed EKROFT closed 4 years ago

EKROFT commented 4 years ago

How will we deal with very large schools of fish?

phylojenie commented 4 years ago

I propose we count large schools of fish like large groups of birds: count a group of 5 or 10, then estimate total number of individuals by visually partitioning groups of 5 or 10 from the large school. We can estimate to the nearest 5, 10 or 100 depending on how large the group is we're looking at.

aliczner commented 4 years ago

It may depend on the question we want to ask - are we interested in abundances or just presence/absence? If just presence absence then it just counts as that species being present so we don't need to count. From my quick look at the datasheet and our research Q page, it doesn't seem like abundances are needed! Much simpler!