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AUTHOR
Sarah Cubaynes
Testing hypotheses in evolutionary ecology with imperfect detection: capture-recapture structural equation modeling.
8 pages; International audience; Studying evolutionary mechanisms in natural populations often requires testing multifactorial scenarios of causality involving direct and indirect relationships among individual and environmental variables. It is also essential to account for the imperfect detection of individuals to provide unbiased demographic parameter estimates. To cope with these issues, we developed a new approach combining structural equation models with capture-recapture models (CR-SEM) that allows the investigation of competing hypotheses about individual and environmental variability observed in demographic parameters. We employ Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling in a Bayesian frame…
Supplement 1. BUGS code to implement the CR-SEM approach.
File List BUGScodes.txt (md5: 065a902fc724b73a8db114ad6c8875ae) Description BUGS codes for fitting SEM-CR models to the blackbird and blue tits data.
Appendix A. Model selection.
Model selection.
Appendix B. Posterior predictive checks.
Posterior predictive checks.
Appendix C. Posterior distributions of the CR-SEM parameters (conditional on the covariates being in the model).
Posterior distributions of the CR-SEM parameters (conditional on the covariates being in the model).