PROGRAM SPACECAP Version 1.0

A Program to Estimate Animal Abundance and Density using Spatially-Explicit Capture-Recapture

Contact Samba Kumar (samba.wcs at gmail.com) if you would like to learn more about this project.

Referenced in

J. Andrew Royle, K. Ullas Karanth, Arjun M. Gopalaswamy, N. Samba Kumar (2009) Bayesian inference in camera trapping studies for a class of spatial capture-recapture models. Ecology: Vol. 90, No. 11, pp. 3233-3244.

Suggested Citation:

Pallavi Singh, Arjun M. Gopalaswamy, Andrew J. Royle, N. Samba Kumar and K. Ullas Karanth (2010). SPACECAP: A Program to Estimate Animal Abundance and Density using Bayesian Spatially-Explicit Capture-Recapture Models. Wildlife Conservation Society - India Program, Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bangalure, India. Version 1.0.

Description

SPACECAP is a user-friendly software package for estimating animal densities using closed model capture-recapture sampling based on photographic captures using Bayesian spatially-explicit capture- recapture models. This approach offers advantage such as: substantially dealing with problems posed by individual heterogeneity in capture probabilities in conventional capture-recapture anal- yses. It also offers non-asymptotic inferences which are more appropriate for small samples of capture data typical of photo-capture studies.

Details

Package: SPACECAP
Type: Package
Version: 1.0
Date: 2010-02-10
License: GPL (>=2)
LazyLoad: yes

Contact:

Andy Royle

Help:

User-group forum, frequently asked questions

Requires

R (>= 2.9.2), tcltk, TeachingDemos

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SPACECAP user's manual

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