Kleptoparasitism (food theft) is a tactic used opportunistically by many foraging birds, but little is known about its fitness benefits. Here we show that habitual kleptoparasitism by individual parent roseate terns (Sterna dougallii) is associated with consistently superior reproductive...

Bayesian multimodel inference treats a set of candidate models as the sample space of a latent categorical random variable, sampled once; the data at hand are modeled as having been generated according to the sampled model. Model selection and model averaging are based on the posterior...

We discuss the analysis of random effects in capture-recapture models, and outline Bayesian and frequentists approaches to their analysis. Under a normal model, random effects estimators derived from Bayesian or frequentist considerations have a common form as shrinkage estimators. We discuss...