quantEcolWorkshop

The code, sample data, and slides for one-day Quantitative Ecology Workshop at Iowa State University on March 12 2026.

During this workshop, I will introduce hierarchical models in wildlife ecology. We’ll start with a brief outline of theory, then work through examples and code together using three broad model types that all account for imperfect detection and are useful in wildlife ecology:

1. Occupancy models
2. Mark-recapture models
3. N-mixture models

Scripts:

• 01_install_quantEcol_packages.R
• 02_creating_detection_histories.R
• 03_occupancy.R
• 04_mark-recapture.R
• 05_N-mixture.R

Data:

• single_detection_history.csv
• single_effort.csv
• single observers.csv
• single_site_cov.csv
• dynamic_detection_history.csv
• dynamic_effort.csv
• dynamic_site_cov.csv
• nmixture_counts.csv

Want to dive deeper? The contents for occupancy and mark-recapture models are based on more in-depth material that I cover in other repositories and tutorials:

• Occupancy models: https://github.com/jamesepaterson/occupancyworkshop
• Mark-recapture models: https://github.com/jamesepaterson/markrecaptureworkshop
• My blog of tutorials: https://jamesepaterson.weebly.com/blog