Hi,
I'm looking to monitor a network of sites over a number of years. The plan at this stage is to monitor around 250 sites in total, with ~83 sites monitored each year (multiple nights in a year). It would be good to analyse data after all sites were sampled in at least one year. I was thinking of producing an occupancy map based on the first 3 years worth of data, with a view to do same with the next 3 years of data to identify areas where occupancy has changed across a broad landscape.
I was wondering whether a multi-season modelling approach could still be used given each site isn't sampled every year. If this is possible, I assume sites not sampled in a given year would be coded as missing data (.) in PRESENCE?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Leroy.