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A variety of sampling methods are used to measure abundance. For larger animals, these may include spotlight counts, track counts and roadkill counts, as well as presence at monitoring stations. In many plant communities the abundances of plant species are measured by plant cover, i.e. the relative areacovered by different plant species in a small plot. Abundance is in simplest terms usually measured by identifying and counting every individual of every species in a given

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