Contribution of Capture-Mark-Recapture Modeling to Studies of Evolution by Natural Selection

摘要: Capture-Mark-Recapture (CMR) modeling is one of the most commonly used estimation methods in population ecology wild animals. Until recently, much emphasis this method was on abundance and survival probability. Despite common interest such demographic parameters, evolutionary ecologists have often been more critical CMR than wildlife biologists, mostly because available models did not allow investigators to address what at heart ecology. Evolutionary aims explaining biological diversity: studies area research necessarily involve assessment variation traits among individuals, including fitness components. The main limitation early inability handle states which individuals move a stochastic manner throughout life (e.g., breeding activity number offspring raised, locations, physiological states, etc.). Several important advances enhanced ecologists' ability hypotheses using data; namely multistate with individual covariates.