Accounting for unobserved population dynamics and aging error in close-kin mark-recapture assessments
J. D. Swenson, E. N. Brooks, D. Kacev, C. Boyd, M. Kinney, B. Marcy-Quay, A. Seveque, K. Feldheim, L. M. Komoroske
This study improves close-kin mark-recapture models by addressing unobserved population dynamics and aging error, showing how sampling strategies and model complexity affect abundance estimates.
bioRxiv · Feb 20, 2023Ecology