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Resource Selection by Animals: Statistical design and analysis for field studies - Rilegato

Manly, B.B.; McDonald, L.; Thomas, D.L.

 
9780412401404: Resource Selection by Animals: Statistical design and analysis for field studies
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ISBN 10: 0412401401 ISBN 13: 9780412401404
Casa editrice: Springer-Verlag GmbH, 1992

Sinossi

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 in­ tended audience is field ecologists in general and wildlife biologists in particular 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, where this is a function of characteristics measured on resource units 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.

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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 in­ tended audience is field ecologists in general and wildlife biologists in particular 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, where this is a function of characteristics measured on resource units 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.

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Editore
Springer-Verlag GmbH
Data di pubblicazione
1992
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0412401401
ISBN 13 
9780412401404
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
177
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