Title
Chapter Title: Estimating Abundance and Other Demographic Parameters in Elephant Populations Using Capture–Recapture Sampling: Field Practices
Book Title: Monitoring Elephant Populations and Assessing Threats: a manual for researchers, managers
and conservationists
Author(s)
Karanth, K.U.;Kumar, N.S.;Goswami, V.R.;Nichols, J.D.;Hedges, S.
Published
2012
Abstract
In Chapter 5, we saw that sampling animal populations by repeatedly ‘catching’ identified individuals can generate capture histories. From these histories, capture frequency statistics and estimates of capture probabilities can be derived. Estimates of capture probabilities permit us to estimate the abundance and density of animals in the surveyed area, as well as other demographic parameters such as survival rates, without ‘catching’ all the individuals in the population.
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