Time intervals between captures
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 9:14 amDear members,
I'm doing some CMR analysis on rodents which have been captured on a monthly interval from April to October every year. I couldn't find anything on how to deal with the 'winter' time gap of 6 months between years.
Some animals do survive from one year to the other, but in Pollock et al 1990 and Amstrup et al 2005 it is said that time intervals between sample occasions have to be sufficiently large but not that they have to be constant over time.
Can anybody help?
Thanks, Valentina
I'm doing some CMR analysis on rodents which have been captured on a monthly interval from April to October every year. I couldn't find anything on how to deal with the 'winter' time gap of 6 months between years.
Some animals do survive from one year to the other, but in Pollock et al 1990 and Amstrup et al 2005 it is said that time intervals between sample occasions have to be sufficiently large but not that they have to be constant over time.
Can anybody help?
Thanks, Valentina