The Effects of Trap Response on Tag Recapture Estimates

In recent years capture-tag-recapture experiments have been widely used for estimating the size of animal populations (cf. Cormack [1968] for an excellent review). However, such methods are only applicable when a number of restrictive assumptions are known to be true, or at least approximately true. For example, it is generally assumed that all animals are equicatchable, and that trapping and tagging do not affect future catchability. However,...