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WILD 7970 - Habitat selection, use, and occupancy



Note that this course has now been complete integrated into canvas. This website has been left up for those seeking information about the course. 

Course Materials:

Syllabus


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Lecture Material

Lecture 1 Course introduction; syllabus; what is habitat selection; Powerpoint; CODE;
Lab 1 Introduction to statistical packages; Assignment; Data
Reading for 2 Johnson 1980; Buskirk and Millspaugh 2006
Lecture 2 Hierarchy of habitat use and selection; types of data; sampling; CODE; Data
Lab 2 Introduction to general linear modeling; Data; Assignment
Lecture 3 Analysis of Use - Non-use data; CODE; Data
Lab 3 Logistic regression in R; Data; Assignment
Reading for 4 Keating and Cherry 2004; Johnson et al. 2006
Lecture 4 Analysis of Use - Availability data; CODE; Data; Excel file
Lab 4 Analysis of Use-Availability data in R - testing Johnson's position; Data; Assignment
Reading for 5 Boyce et al. 2002
Lecture 5 Evaluation of RSF's and RSPF's; CODE; Data1; Data2
Lab 5 Interpreting output of logistic regression in R; Data; Assignment
Reading for 6 Marzluff et al. 2004 (Just read intro and discussion); Millspaugh et al. 2006 (whole article)
Lecture 6 Estimating RSF's from utilization distributions
Lab 6 Estimating RSF's from utilization distributions in R
Reading for 7 Exercise 1; Exercise 2
Lecture 7 Maximum likelihood for binomial & multinomial models; Powerpoint
Lab 7 Maximum likelihood (Excel); Assignment; Excel file
Reading for 8 MacKenzie et al. 2002
Lecture 8 Single Season, Single Species Occupancy; PowerPoint; CODE
Lab 8 Occupancy analysis in Excel, Presence and R; Assignment; Excel file; Presence Instructions; Data
Reading for 9 MacKenzie et al. 2003
Lecture 9 Multi-season occupancy; PowerPoint
Lab 9 Occupancy analysis in R (continued); Assignment; Excel File
Reading for 10 MacKenzie et al. 2004
Lecture 10 Multi-species occupancy; PowerPoint
Lab 10 Multi-species occupancy in Presence; Assignment; Excel File

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