ResourceSelection: Wildlife Resource Selection Probability Functions

ResourceSelection provides statistical functions for modeling wildlife habitat use based on weighted distributions. The package implements methods from peer-reviewed ecological research by Lele and Keim (2006), Lele (2009), and Solymos & Lele (2016). It is designed for analyzing use-availability data common in animal movement and ecology studies.

Use Cases

• Estimating habitat selection probability based on use-availability data mentioned in the description
• Fitting weighted distribution models for wildlife telemetry data
• Comparing resource selection functions across different species or study areas
• Validating ecological hypotheses using statistically robust selection functions

Strengths

• Implements peer-reviewed methods from three cited ecological publications
• Functions are specifically designed for use-availability wildlife data, a common study design

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Subhash R. Lele

Collection Method

Statistical software package implementing published ecological modeling methods.

Time Range

Methods developed between 2006 and 2016.

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Geography

Geographic coverage is unspecified and likely depends on user-provided data.