Week 12

Day 1

Today

Discussion led by Galen and Cristina

Discussion led by Ryan and Lindsay

Assigned

• Readings for next class:
  • Royle et al. 2018
• Background Reading (not required):
  • Borchers and Marques 2017
  • Royle et al 2011

Day 2 (lab)

Today

In Class Discussion of Royle et al. 2018

• How are SCR data different than a typical capture-recapture study?

• What is an ‘activity center’?

• What makes this model ‘spatial’? Think about this assumption. When will it be appropriate or not to assume?

• What are the two components that control ‘detection probability’?

• If using a SCR model, how might your sampling strategy change?

• What is the exact meaning of abundance in this type of model?

• Downloads: Lab Files

• Install R packages:

# CRAN packages
install.packages(c("secr","sf"))

Assigned