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I started the tutorial using the area-based model for all three of the sampling techniques. There was not too big of a difference between the duration of the samplings, but I found the fastest of the three techniques to be using the haphazard technique (14 hours). I found that the haphazard technique yielded the more accurate sampling error when it came to rare species, whereas the systematic approach was better in determining percent error results for the two common species. In terms of effectiveness of techniques, the haphazard provided better results, compared to the systematic and random approaches.
