Imagine that you are conducting a mark-recapture survey of common pill bugs (Armadillidium vulgare), a terrestrial isopod, in a field. Unbeknownst to you, the majority of the pill bugs molt between marking and recapturing. How does this affect your estimate of the population size? How could you have foreseen this? How could you prevent this in the future?
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