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David R. Anderson, Jeffrey L. Laake, Bradford R. Crain, Kenneth P. Burnham, Guidelines for Line Transect Sampling of Biological Populations, The Journal of Wildlife Management, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Jan., 1979), pp. 70-78
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