Selection, use, choice and occupancy: Clarifying concepts in resource selection studies

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1183-1191

  Lele, Subhash R ^a   Merrill, Evelyn H ^a   Keim, Jonah ^b   Boyce, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Matrix Solutions Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Habitat suitability; Occupancy; Presence only data; Step selection functions; Telemetry; Weighted distributions

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DATA SET; PROBABILITY; RESOURCE SELECTION; TELEMETRY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT SUITABILITY; OCCUPANCY; PRESENCE-ONLY DATA; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEP SELECTION FUNCTIONS; TELEMETRY; WEIGHTED DISTRIBUTIONS;

HABITAT SUITABILITY; OCCUPANCY; PRESENCE-ONLY DATA; STEP SELECTION FUNCTIONS; TELEMETRY; WEIGHTED DISTRIBUTIONS;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84886305622     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12141     Document Type: Article

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