Hello,
I am a student new to RMark and was curious 1) how and 2) where to incorporate capture effort into my analysis. Specifically, I am looking at long-term CMR data of birds and want to know how net hours and in which season sampling occurred impact survival and recruitment. I am using the "PradLambaMix" and "PradelRecMix" models. Since these aren't design covariates, I know I shouldn't add them directly to the design matrix.
I assume my net hours and season will be individual time-varying covariates, since, for each capture of an individual, the net hours and season (for whatever period we sampled in and caught that individual) will be unique. I want to include these as covariates in my capture probability model (something like cpmod = list(formula= ~nethours + season)- but first need to be able to match them to the individual ID, and then go from there. This is where I am stuck, so any input would be appreciated!
Thanks.