An integrated data model to estimate spatiotemporal occupancy, abundance, and colonization dynamics

Ecology
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Abstract

Ecological invasions and colonizations occur dynamically through space and time. Estimating the distribution and abundance of colonizing species is critical for efficient management or conservation. We describe a statistical framework for simultaneously estimating spatiotemporal occupancy and abundance dynamics of a colonizing species. Our method accounts for several issues that are common when modeling spatiotemporal ecological data including multiple levels of detection probability, multiple data sources, and computational limitations that occur when making fine-scale inference over a large spatiotemporal domain. We apply the model to estimate the colonization dynamics of sea otters (Enhydra lutris) in Glacier Bay, in southeastern Alaska.

Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title An integrated data model to estimate spatiotemporal occupancy, abundance, and colonization dynamics
Series title Ecology
DOI 10.1002/ecy.1643
Volume 98
Issue 2
Year Published 2017
Language English
Publisher Ecological Society of America
Contributing office(s) Coop Res Unit Seattle
Description 9 p.
First page 328
Last page 336
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