For example , TASK SIMULATE POPULATION = 200 OCCASIONS = 4 REPLICATIONS - 100 TIME = 0.5,0.4,0.5,0.4 BEHAVIOR = 100 , 1.5 , 100,0.75 results in a first - capture probability of 0.5 for all animals on trapping occasion 1.
Author: Gary C. White
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ISBN: UOM:39015005839421
Category: Animal populations
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The problem of estimating animal abundance is common in wildlife management and environmental impact assessment. Capture-recapture and removal methods are often used to estimate population size. Statistical Inference From Capture Data On Closed Animal Populations, a monograph by Otis et al. (1978), provides us with a comprehensive synthesis of much of the wildlife and statistical literature on the methods, as well as some extensions of the general theory. In our primer, we focus on capture-recapture and removal methods for trapping studies in which a population is assumed to be closed and do not treat open-population models, such as the Jolly-Seber model, or catch-effort methods in any detail. The primer, written for students interested in population estimation, is intended for use with the more theoretical monograph.