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Integrated population modeling for social species: A case study with elephant seals

This repository contains R codes to reproduce the analyses from our paper 'Integrated population modeling for social species: A case study with elephant seals' submitted to Wildlife Biology. The text files contain data, while the R scripts do the following tasks:

• ipm_with_a_estimated.R: fit an IPM; all estimates in the paper are from this model
• ipm_with_a_fixed.R: fit an IPM with parameter a fixed to test the sociality hypothesis
• countmodel_with_a_estimated.R: R script w/ code to fit a model to counts only
• countmodel_witha_fixed.R: R script w/ code to fit a model to counts only with parameter a fixed to test the sociality hypothesis