We have written this book as a guide to the design and analysis of field studies of resource selection, concentrating primarily on statistical aspects of the comparison of the use and availability of resources of different types. Our intended audience is field ecologists in general and, in particula[...]

This third edition illustrates the value of a number of computer-intensive methods with an emphasis on biological applications. It has been updated to reflect developments in methodology, computing, and applications and features extensively revised chapters on bootstrap and Monte Carlo methods that [...]