Simulation-based assessment of the performance of hierarchical abundance estimators for camera trap surveys
M. Bollen, J. Casaer, N. Beenaerts, T. Neyens
The paper simulates three hierarchical abundance models for camera trap data and finds none are accurate individually but pooling improves performance, with Royle-Nichols and Poisson N-mixture models performing best.
bioRxiv · Nov 23, 2022 · PreprintEcology