The detectability for individuals was approximately 90% using the entire day of observations.
Virginia Alonso Roldán, Luisina Bossio, David E Galván 2015, 'Sources of Variation in a Two-Step Monitoring Protocol for Species Clustered in ConspicuousPoints: Dolichotis patagonum as a Case Study.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4444103?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We failed to detect a clear effect of leaf shape on detectability.
Decky I. Junaedi, Michael A. McCarthy, Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita, Jane A. Catford,Mark A. Burgman 2018, 'Traits influence detection of exotic plant species in tropical forests', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0202254. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Detectability varied among the different survey locations.
Decky I. Junaedi, Michael A. McCarthy, Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita, Jane A. Catford,Mark A. Burgman 2018, 'Traits influence detection of exotic plant species in tropical forests', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0202254. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We also expected detectability to be highly dependent on body size.
Rodrigo Augusto Lima Santos, Sara M. Santos, Margarida Santos-Reis, Almir Picançode Figueiredo, Alex Bager, Ludmilla M. S. Aguiar, Fernando Ascensão 2016, 'Carcass Persistence and Detectability: Reducing the Uncertainty Surrounding Wildlife-VehicleCollision Surveys', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0165608. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The presence of mistletoe plants in the sample tree had negligible effect on detectability.
Rodrigo F Fadini, Renato Cintra 2015, 'Modeling occupancy of hosts by mistletoe seeds after accounting for imperfect detectability.',PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4431672?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Moving stimuli at threshold detectability are seen faster than non-moving threshold stimuli.
B. L. Gros, D. S. Greenhouse, T. E. Cohn 2005, 'Visual Warning Signals Optimized for Human Perception: What the Eye Sees Fastest',Applied Bionics and Biomechanicshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1533/abbi.2004.0005. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The resulting contrast curves translate to the detectability of exoplanets.
Jolissaint L., Kissler-Patig M., Rebolo R., Castella B.F., Gladysz S. 2011, 'Imaging extrasolar planets with the European Extremely Large Telescope', EPJ Web of Conferenceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20111607003. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
For specific sites, this approach increases their detectability by more than 1,000-fold.
Piero Giansanti, Thin Thin Aye, Henk van den Toorn, Mao Peng, Bas van Breukelen, Albert J.R.Heck 2015, 'An Augmented Multiple-Protease-Based Human Phosphopeptide Atlas', Cell Reportshttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124715005653. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Human disturbances affected elephant habitat occupancy as well as site-level detectability.
Devcharan Jathanna, K Ullas Karanth, N Samba Kumar, Krithi K Karanth, Varun R Goswami 2015, 'Patterns and Determinants of Habitat Occupancy by the Asian Elephant in the WesternGhats of Karnataka, India.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4514602?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)