Conservation planning using resource selection models: Altered selection in the presence of human activity changes spatial prediction of resource use

Animal Conservation

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 502-511

  Harju, S M ^a   Dzialak, M R ^a   Osborn, R G ^a,b   Hayden Wing, L D ^a   Winstead, J B ^a  

^a Hayden Wing Associates LLC   (United States)

^b New Mexico Game and Fish Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical modeling; Cervus elaphus; Discrete choice modeling; Energy development; Human activity; Natural gas field; Resource selection function; Rocky mountain elk

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; GAS FIELD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; RESOURCE SELECTION; RESOURCE USE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMALIA; CERVUS ELAPHUS;

EID: 79955401516     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2011.00456.x     Document Type: Article

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