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ArticleEcology and evolution2021

Spatial capture-recapture with random thinning for unidentified encounters.

José Jiménez, Ben C Augustine, Daniel W Linden, Richard B Chandler, J Andrew Royle

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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José JiménezInstituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC, CSIC-UCLM-JCCM) Ronda de Toledo, 12 Ciudad Real 13071 Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0607-6973
Ben C AugustineU.S. Geological Survey John Wesley Powell Center Cornell Department of Natural Resources Ithaca New York 14853 USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6935-6361
Daniel W LindenGreater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service 55 Great Republic Drive Gloucester Massachusetts 01922 USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7117-189X
Richard B ChandlerWarnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources University of Georgia 180 E. Green Street Athens Georgia 30602 USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4930-2790
J Andrew RoyleU.S. Geological Survey Patuxent Wildlife Research Center 12100 Beech Forest Road Laurel Maryland 20708 USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3135-2167

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spatial capture-recapture (SCR) models have increasingly been used as a basis for combining capture-recapture data types with variable levels of individual identity information to estimate population density and other demographic parameters. Recent examples are the unmarked SCR (or spatial count model), where no individual identities are available and spatial mark-resight (SMR) where individual identities are available for only a marked subset of the population. Currently lacking, though, is a model that allows unidentified samples to be combined with identified samples when there are no separate classes of "marked" and "unmarked" individuals and when the two sample types cannot be considered as arising from two independent observation models. This is a common scenario when using noninvasive sampling methods, for example, when analyzing data on identified and unidentified photographs or scats from the same sites.Here we describe a "random thinning" SCR model that utilizes encounters of both known and unknown identity samples using a natural mechanistic dependence between samples arising from a single observation model. Our model was fitted in a Bayesian framework using NIMBLE.We investigate the improvement in parameter estimates by including the unknown identity samples, which was notable (up to 79% more precise) in low-density populations with a low rate of identified encounters. We then applied the random thinning SCR model to a noninvasive genetic sampling study of brown bear (

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brown beardensity estimationnoninvasive samplingspatial capture–recaptureuncertain identityunmarkedUrsus arctos

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