A Program to Estimate Animal Abundance and Density using
Spatially-Explicit Capture-Recapture
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 analyses. It
also offers non-asymptotic inferences which are more
appropriate for small samples of capture data typical of
photo-capture studies.