habitat use

Incorporating Utilization Distributions into the Study of Resource Selection: Dealing With Spatial Autocorrelation

An accurate estimate of resource use by an animal can be summarized by regressing local- and landscape level resources on an individual animal’s or population’s utilization distribution (UD) in a spatially explicit way. The resulting equation is …

Relating Resources to a Probabilistic Measure of Space Use: Forest Fragments and Steller’s Jays

Many analytical techniques that assess resource selection focus on individual relocation points as the sample unit and classify resources as either used or available. Commonly, the relative use of each resource is quantified as the number of …