ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a more integrative analysis of the various population size estimates using a meta-analytic approach. Meta-analytic methods can be very helpful in summarizing information from mark-resight experiments. It shows how population size N and number of resighting occasions M affect the behavior of the three estimators. The more resighting occasions, the higher the precision of the estimator. This relationship can be used to approach the question of how many resighting occasions M should be used. The technique can also be used to combine M pairwise capture-recapture estimators arising from M + 1 capture occasions. However, as there is complete identification information, the preferred approach would be based upon log $ {\text{log }} $ -linear modeling as this would allow forms of dependence structure for the capturing process at the M + 1 occasions. The chapter examines a case study on stray dogs in South Bhutan.
