Week 9

Day 1

Today

In Class Discussion of Royle et al. 2018

  • How are 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: Files

  • Install R packages:

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

Assigned

Day 2 (lab)

Today

  • Board work defining the occupancy model hierarchically

  • Downloads: Files

  • Install R packages:

# CRAN packages
install.packages(c("ubms","unmarked"))

Assigned