assessing the suitability of a one-time sampling event for close-kin mark-recapture: a caribou case study

This dataset contains the R scripts and data files utilized by the associated manuscript of the same name. It includes the R script for performing the close-kin mark-recapture simulation study, as well as the R script for performing the close-kin mark-recapture case study on a small boreal caribou population. Additionally, it includes the capture histories, life-stage assignments, and multilocus genotypes for the caribou case study. It also includes the necessary input files for the COLONY software to infer parentage for the caribou case study, as well as the maternity assignment file output by COLONY.