Hi Murray and list,
I was talking to David about how to implement Royle and Young's 2008 style analysis in the 'secr' package, where they do a visual search for lizards in a plot and do not have 'trap' locations as such. In its current form, can 'secr' analyse this data type? (I thought not?) David's suggestion was to specify the center of the plot as the trap location and then have a uniform detection function within the plot (of height p, to be estimated), and zero probability of detection outside of the plot.
He thought you had an unreleased version of secr that did strip transects but the detection function decreased with distance from the transect?
Although these idea's are David's, I take full responsibility for any errors in my email
Thanks!
Jo