Multi-level, multi-scale resource selection functions and resistance surfaces for conservation planning: Pumas as a case study.

ABSTRACT: The importance of examining multiple hierarchical levels when modeling resource use for wildlife has been acknowledged for decades. Multi-level resource selection functions have recently been promoted as a method to synthesize resource use across nested organizational levels into a single predictive surface. Analyzing multiple scales of selection within each hierarchical level further strengthens multi-level resource selection functions. We extend this multi-level, multi-scale framework to modeling resistance for wildlife by combining multi-scale resistance surfaces from two data types, genetic and movement. Resistance estimation has typically been conducted with one of these data types, or compared between the two. However, we contend it is not an either/or issue and that resistance may b

SUBMITTER: Zeller KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5469479 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature