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Item Details
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RESOURCE SELECTION BY ANIMALS
STATISTICAL DESIGN AND ANALYSIS FOR FIELD STUDIES |
| By: |
Bryan Manly, Lyman L. McDonald, Dana Thomas |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£139.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1402006772 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781402006777 |
| Publisher: |
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS |
| Edition: |
2nd ed. 2002 |
| Pages: |
222 |
| Description: |
Gives a framework for the study of how animals select their resources - food and habitat by taking the reader through different types of study design. This work is useful for field biologists, especially those concerned with the management and conservation of wildlife. It is also suitable for wildlife managers and conservation biologists. |
| Synopsis: |
We have written this book as a guide to the design and analysis of field studies of resource selection, concentrating primarily on statistical aspects of the comparison of the use and availability of resources of different types. Our intended audience is field ecologists in general and, in particular, wildlife and fisheries biologists who are attempting to measure the extent to which real animal populations are selective in their choice of food and habitat. As such, we have made no attempt to address those aspects of theoretical ecology that are concerned with how animals might choose their resources if they acted in an optimal manner. The book is based on the concept of a resource selection function (RSF), where this is a function of characteristics measured on resourceunits such that its value for a unit is proportional to the probability of that unit being used. We argue that this concept leads to a unified theory for the analysis and interpretation of data on resource selection and can replace many ad hoc statistical methods that have been used in the past. |
| Illustrations: |
biography |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Kluwer Academic Publishers |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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