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Testing assumptions in transect recording of butterflies. (a) Recorder effect: results of three different recorders (symbols) making repeated counts of two species along the same transect route during the season (from Pollard et al. 1975). (b) Comparison of transect counts with absolute population estimates of one species made on the same days on four sites (symbols) at different times in the emergence (from Thomas 1983a).
