Modelling wildlife-human relationships for social species with mixed-effects resource selection models

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 834-844

  Hebblewhite, Mark ^a,b   Merrill, Evelyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized linear mixed model; Hierarchical model; Logistic regression; Resource selection; Wolf

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; CANID; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE SELECTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS;

EID: 42949083633     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01466.x     Document Type: Article

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