Exercise 3

 

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Donovan, T. M., and M. Alldredge.  2007.  Exercises in Estimating and Monitoring Abundance. <http://www.uvm.edu/envnr/vtcfwru/spreadsheets/abundance/abundance.htm>

Chapter 3 - Closed Capture Models.  Closed capture models are used to estimate abundance when animals are captured, marked, and released in one sampling occasion, and then recaptured on subsequent sampling occasions.  This exercise describes the classic models in Otis et al. 1978.

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Literature
Burnham, K. P., and D. R. Anderson.  2001.  Kullback-Leibler information as a basis for strong inference in ecological studies.  Wildlife Research 28:111-119.
Otis, D. L., K. P. Burnham, G. C. White, and D. R. Anderson.  1978.  Statistical inference from capture data on closed animal populations.  Wildlife Monographs 62.
Otis et al. (2)
Otis et al. (3)
 

 


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