Estimating Presence and Abundance of Closed Populations

George Seber is a retired Professor of Statistics at Auckland University, New Zealand, a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and recipient of the Society’s Hector Medal in Information Sciences. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books on various branches of statistics. More recently, as a counsellor/psychotherapist with a 20-year practice, he has written an extensive book on counselling for practitioners, books on the topics of dying and death of loved ones, sleep, and alcohol, as well as a book on religion and science. He has published numerous research articles on a variety of statistical subjects.Matthew Schofield is an Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is a recipient of the Littlejohn Research Award, the premier research award of the New Zealand Statistical Association. He has published over forty research articles, many of which involve the development of capture-recapture methodology.

• 1 Model building.- 2 Plot sampling.- 3 Detectability.- 4 Occupancy, Abundance and Related Topics.- 5 Species Methods.- 6 Closest distance and nearest neighbor methods.- 7 Point Counts and Point-Distance Methods.- 8 Line Transect and Distance Methods.- 9 Line Intercept Methods.- 10 Removal and Change-in-Ratio Methods.- 11 Catch-effort models.- 12 Capture-Recapture: Frequentist Methods.- 13 Capture-Recapture: Bayesian Methods-. 14 Spatial and Camera Methods.- A Some General Results.- References.- Index.