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Resource Selection by Animals - Statistical Design and Analysis for Field Studies (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2002)
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Resource Selection by Animals - Statistical Design and Analysis for Field Studies (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2002)
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We have written this book as a guide to the design and analysis of
field studies of resource selection, concentrating primarily on
statistical aspects of the comparison of the use and availability
of resources of different types. Our intended audience is field
ecologists in general and, in particular, wildlife and fisheries
biologists who are attempting to measure the extent to which real
animal populations are selective in their choice of food and
habitat. As such, we have made no attempt to address those aspects
of theoretical ecology that are concerned with how animals might
choose their resources if they acted in an optimal manner. The book
is based on the concept of a resource selection function (RSF),
where this is a function of characteristics measured on
resourceunits such that its value for a unit is proportional to the
probability of that unit being used. We argue that this concept
leads to a unified theory for the analysis and interpretation of
data on resource selection and can replace many ad hoc statistical
methods that have been used in the past.
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