Contact Pedro Afonso (Azores University). He did publish many papers on this subject for marine animals that might give you useful and helpful insights and approaches to your question.

Best,

JP

Hi, the package SECR in R has exactly an "extension" which can cope with your needs....Stef

Owen Bidder: "population density and trap effort (number of trap days etc.)."

OK, but terrestrial or aquatic one?

P.S. I am interested about this specific aspect because live capturing of sturgeons and minks have been currently performed by our people in the last few years.

Hi. You can use the R package "scrbook" to simulate same dataset under different densities, trap configuration and maybe home range from target species. This is the link to download the package: https://sites.google.com/site/spatialcapturerecapture/home

In R, try:

library(scrbook)

?scrbook # Look for SCR0bayes

Hello. Last year, we published a paper (Wiig et al. 2013) in which we quantified probability of survival (capture) for European lobster under different degrees of trap exposure within a lobsters home range. Somewhat related is a paper we published back in 2011 (Moland et al. 2011) where we quantified the time required to observe a lobsters home range. I have attached links (I think) to both papers. Perhaps you'll find them useful.

All the best,

Even

Article Home range of European lobster (Homarus gammarus) in a marin...

And the other link:

Article Spatially structured interactions between lobsters and lobst...