Uniform distribution of animals with respect to transects

Author

Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling
University of St Andrews

Published

March 22, 2024

Simulation of line transect survey, I won’t show the simulation details, but here is the distribution of animals (3000) and placement of 40 transects in the study area.

Distribution of animals and survey effort.

From this survey, sample pairs of transects to visually examine the uniformity of animal distances.

Two transects

Five transects

Ten transects

Fifteen transects

Twenty transects