Incorporating Telemetry Information Into Capture-Recapture Analyses Improves Precision and Accuracy Ofabundance Estimates Given Spatiotemporally Biasedrecapture Effort

Natural populations that are rare, cryptic or inaccessible provide a monumental challenge to monitoring, as adequate data are extremely difficult to collect. Surveys often encompass only a small portion of a population's range due to difficult terrain or inclement weather, especially for populations with extensive ranges. Thus, to maximise encounters, sampling efforts may be largely opportunistic or biased to accessible areas. The resulting sparse and spatially biased data may be difficult to model, standardise across years and incorporate into an assessment or management framework. However, in many monitoring programs, there are usually multiple threads of data that, though each may have its own limitations, can be synthesised to reveal important ecological processes.

Badger JJ, Johnson DS, Baird RW,Bradford AL, Kratofil MA, Mahaffy SD, Oleson EM 2024. Incorporating telemetry information into capture-recapture analyses improves precision and accuracy ofabundance estimates given spatiotemporally biasedrecapture effort Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 00, 1-12.
http://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14408