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A robust design capture-recapture model with multiple age classes augmented with population assignment data

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The relative contribution of in situ reproduction versus immigration to the recruitment process is important to ecologists. Here we consider a robust design superpopulation capture-recapture model for a population with two age classes augmented with population assignment data. We first use age information to estimate the entry probabilities of new animals originating via in situ reproduction and immigration separately for all except the first period. Then we combine age and population assignment information with the capture-recapture model, which enables us to estimate the entry probability of in situ births and the entry probability of immigrants separately for all sampling periods. Further, this augmentation of age specific capture-recapture data with population assignment data greatly improves the estimators’ precision. We apply our new model to a capture-recapture data set with genetic information for banner-tailed kangaroo rats in Southern Arizona. We find that many more individuals are born in situ than are immigrants for all time periods. Young animals have lower survival probabilities than adults born in situ. Adult animals born in situ have higher survival probabilities than adults that were immigrants.

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We thank the NSF, for support (DEB 0816925).

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  1. Office of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, MD, USA

    Zhi Wen

  2. Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, USGS, Laurel, MD, USA

    James D. Nichols

  3. Department of Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA

    Kenneth H. Pollock

  4. Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA

    Peter M. Waser

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Wen, Z., Nichols, J.D., Pollock, K.H. et al. A robust design capture-recapture model with multiple age classes augmented with population assignment data. Environ Ecol Stat 21, 41–59 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10651-013-0243-6

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