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Bayes and Empirical Bayes Estimators of Abundance and Density from Spatial Capture-Recapture Data

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In capture-recapture and mark-resight surveys, movements of individuals both within and between sampling periods can alter the susceptibility of individuals to detection over the region of sampling. In these circumstances spatially explicit capture-recapture (SECR) models, which incorporate the observed locations of individuals, allow population density and abundance to be estimated while accounting for differences in detectability of individuals. In this paper I propose two Bayesian SECR models, one for the analysis of recaptures observed in trapping arrays and another for the analysis of recaptures observed in area searches. In formulating these models I used distinct submodels to specify the distribution of individual home-range centers and the observable recaptures associated with these individuals. This separation of ecological and observational processes allowed me to derive a formal connection between Bayes and empirical Bayes estimators of population abundance that has not been established previously. I showed that this connection applies to every Poisson point-process model of SECR data and provides theoretical support for a previously proposed estimator of abundance based on recaptures in trapping arrays. To illustrate results of both classical and Bayesian methods of analysis, I compared Bayes and empirical Bayes esimates of abundance and density using recaptures from simulated and real populations of animals. Real populations included two iconic datasets: recaptures of tigers detected in camera-trap surveys and recaptures of lizards detected in area-search surveys. In the datasets I analyzed, classical and Bayesian methods provided similar – and often identical – inferences, which is not surprising given the sample sizes and the noninformative priors used in the analyses.

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  • Robert M Dorazio, 2013. "Bayes and Empirical Bayes Estimators of Abundance and Density from Spatial Capture-Recapture Data," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(12), pages 1-12, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0084017
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084017
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    1. D. L. Borchers & M. G. Efford, 2008. "Spatially Explicit Maximum Likelihood Methods for Capture–Recapture Studies," Biometrics, The International Biometric Society, vol. 64(2), pages 377-385, June.
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