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Density estimation in live‐trapping studies

Density estimation in live‐trapping studies

Unbiased estimation of population density is a major and unsolved problem in animal trapping studies. This paper describes a new and general method for estimating density from closed‐population capture–recapture data. Many estimators exist for the size (N) and mean capture probability ( p̄) of a closed population. These statistics suffer …