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Borchers et al. (2002) explored methods for estimating the abundance of closed populations. When that book was being written, a biologist’s puzzled reaction was “What is a closed population?”. In reality, there is no such thing—populations only appear closed if you look at them for a short enough time period. Look at them for longer and they will change: animals will be born, age, grow, die and move. Despite this, there are many publications devoted to closed population abundance estimation methods.
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Newman, K.B. et al. (2014). Modelling Population Dynamics Using Closed-Population Abundance Estimates. In: Modelling Population Dynamics. Methods in Statistical Ecology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0977-3_6
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