Time-for-space substitution in N-mixture models for estimating population trends: a simulation-based evaluation

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 4581 - 10
• Main Authors: Costa, Andrea, Salvidio, Sebastiano, Penner, Johannes, Basile, Marco
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 25.02.2021; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/158/1745; 631/158/672; 704/158/670; Abundance; Animals; Case studies; Computer Simulation; Ecological studies; Humanities and Social Sciences; Metapopulations; Models, Theoretical; multidisciplinary; Population; Population Dynamics; Population number; Probability; Rare species; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Trends

N-mixture models usually rely on a meta-population design, in which repeated counts of individuals in multiple sampling locations are obtained over time. The time-for-space substitution (TSS) in N-mixture models allows to estimate population abundance and trend of a single population, without spatia...