Estimating resource selection with count data

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2233-2240

  Nielson, Ryan M ^a   Sawyer, Hall ^a  

^a WESTERN ECOSYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized linear model; Habitat use; Overdispersion; Panel data; Poisson regression; Resource selection probability function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886281635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.617     Document Type: Article

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