"The current literature on resource selection by animals is a maze of methodologies for date collection and interpretation. Field biologists, need a guide through the labyrinth. This book provides such a guide. It gives a clear and consistent framework for the study of how animals select their resources (food and habitat) by taking the reader through different types of study design. It is an invaluable handbook for the field biologist, especially those concerned with the management and conservation of wildlife. The authors have clearly identified the need to pull together the diffuse literature, and biologists will greatly improve their experimental design, methodology and analysis with this book."--Jacket.

Revised edition of: Resource selection by animals / Bryan F.J. Manly, Lyman L. McDonald, Dana L. Thomas. 1st ed. 1993.

Motivation and Definitions --Sampling Protocols and Study Designs -- Comparison of Designs -- Indices of Selection -- Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals -- Statistical Modelling Procedures -- Simple Sample Comparisons -- Linear Regression -- Logistic Regression -- Log-Linear Models -- Proportional Hazards Models -- Generalized Linear Models -- Tests Used in Modelling -- Model Selection Using AIC -- Analysis of Residuals -- Multiple tests and confidence intervals -- Bootstrap Methods -- Examples of the Use of Resource Selection Functions -- Sample Designs -- Studies with Resources Defined by Several Categories -- Sampling Designs and Protocols -- Choice of Estimators for Selection Ratios -- Variance of a Ratio and the Difference of Ratios -- Chi-Squared Tests -- Design I with Known Proportions of Available Resource Units -- Tests on Proportions of Used Units -- Inferences Concerning Selection Ratios -- Comparison of Selection Ratios -- Design I with Estimated Proportions of Available Resource Units -- Design II with Sampling Protocol A -- Census of Available Resource Units -- Sample of Available Resource Units -- Design III with Sampling Protocol A -- Census of Available Resource Units -- Sample of Available Resource Units -- Resource Selection Functions from Logistic Regression -- Census Data -- Use With a Random Sample of Resource Units -- Separate Sampling -- Separate Samples of Available and Used Units -- Separate Samples of Available and Unused Units -- Separate Samples of Used and Unused Units.