SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION IN DETECTION PROBABILITY OF PLETHODON SALAMANDERS USING THE ROBUST CAPTURE‐RECAPTURE DESIGN

摘要: Abstract Recent worldwide amphibian declines have highlighted a need for long-term, large-scale monitoring programs. Scientific or management objectives, appropriate spatial sampling, and detectability all must be considered when designing programs (Yoccoz et al. 2001). The ability to establish meaningful currently is compromised by lack of information about detection probabilities. We used Pollock's robust design capture–recapture models that included temporary emigration test priori hypotheses temporal variation in salamander probability parameters populations found Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Tennessee/North Carolina), USA. explored the effects 3 habitat characteristics (disturbance history, elevation, vegetation type) type elevation were correlated with Vegetation was an important covariant estimates emigration, co...