Habitat ecology and analysis

The identification and analysis of the particular habitat needs of a species has always been a central focus of research and applied conservation in both ecology and wildlife biology. Although these two academic communities have developed quite separately over many years, there is now real value in attempting to unify them to allow better communication and awareness by practitioners and students from each discipline. Despite the recent dramatic increase in the types of quantitative methods for conducting habitat analyses, there is no single reference that simultaneously explains and compares all these new techniques. This accessible textbook provides the first concise, authoritative resource that clearly presents these emerging methods together and demonstrates how they can be applied to data using statistical methodology, whilst putting the decades-old pursuit of analyzing habitat into historical context. Habitat Ecology and Analysis is written for senior undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in wildlife ecology, conservation biology, and habitat ecology as well as professional ecologists, wildlife biologists, conservation biologists, and land managers requiring an accessible overview of the latest methodology.

Ecology and wildlife ecology as distinct academic disciplines -- The primacy of habitat -- Goals of characterizing a species habitat -- Types of data and the general framework of analysis -- Issues based on species life history and behavior -- Design and statistical issues related to habitat analysis -- Analysis of the habitat associations of a hypothetical beetle species -- Statistical methods for analyzing species-habitat associations -- Post-analysis procedures -- Other techniques related to habitat analysis.