ESTIMATING SITE OCCUPANCY, COLONIZATION, AND LOCAL EXTINCTION WHEN A SPECIES IS DETECTED IMPERFECTLY

@article{MacKenzie2003ESTIMATINGSO,
  title={ESTIMATING SITE OCCUPANCY, COLONIZATION, AND LOCAL EXTINCTION WHEN A SPECIES IS DETECTED IMPERFECTLY},
  author={Darryl I MacKenzie and James D. Nichols and James E Hines and Melinda G. Knutson and Alan B. Franklin},
  journal={Ecology},
  year={2003},
  volume={84},
  pages={2200-2207}
}
Few species are likely to be so evident that they will always be detected when present. Failing to allow for the possibility that a target species was present, but undetected, at a site will lead to biased estimates of site occupancy, colonization, and local extinction probabilities. These population vital rates are often of interest in long-term monitoring programs and metapopulation studies. We present a model that enables direct estimation of these parameters when the probability of… 
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