Estimating Northern Fur Seal Pup Production: A case study of batch mark abundance estimation
D. S. Johnson, R. G. Towell, J. D. Baker
This paper develops and evaluates a hierarchical N-mixture model for estimating northern fur seal pup production using batch mark-resight data, showing that Gaussian approximations can provide reliable estimates with reduced uncertainty.
bioRxiv · Mar 20, 2023 · PreprintEcology