Continuous-time spatially explicit capture-recapture models, with an application to a jaguar camera-trap survey

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 656-665

  Borchers, David ^a   Distiller, Greg ^b   Foster, Rebecca ^c,d   Harmsen, Bart ^c,d   Milazzo, Lorenzo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c PANTHERA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BELIZE   (Belize)

^e University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Data aggregation; Density estimation; Statistical methods; Sufficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904333719     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12196     Document Type: Article

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