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Estimating Abundance from Mark-Recapture Data

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In terms of modelling population dynamics, the mark-recapture literature has in recent years been dominated by methods for estimating survival, as described in Chap. 7. In this chapter, we consider open-population mark-recapture methods for estimating abundance, survival and births. We first summarise conventional methods (Seber 1973, 1982).

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  1. Stockton Fish and Wildlife Office, Pacific Southwest Region U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Lodi, CA, USA

    K. B. Newman

  2. CREEM The Observatory Buchanan Gdns, St. Andrews, UK

    S. T. Buckland, R. King, D. L. Borchers & L. Thomas

  3. School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK

    B. J. T. Morgan, D. J. Cole & P. Besbeas

  4. Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece

    P. Besbeas

  5. Centre d’Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive, UMR 5175 Campus du CNRS, Montpellier cedex 5, France

    O. Gimenez

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Newman, K.B. et al. (2014). Estimating Abundance from Mark-Recapture Data. In: Modelling Population Dynamics. Methods in Statistical Ecology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0977-3_8

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