Radiotelemetry has become an important tool in many modern studies of animal behavior, ecology, management and conservation because of the dramatic increases in our technological capabilities to locate animals.  It is common to use radiotelemetry to study animal movement, survival, migration, dispersal, space use, home range size, habitat use, and resource selection.  radiotelemetry data that dramatically improve our ability to evaluate and estimate animal's home range requirements and habitat selection.   Designing and analyzing studies of animals using radiotelemetry will be improved substantially through knowledge of the powerful statistical tools which have been developed for this kind of data as well as how to apply basic principles of finite population sampling.  

Participants in this two and a half day workshop (either January 3-5 or March 10-12, 2006) will explore these powerful tools for estimating home range size, habitat use, and resource selection by applying them to real data on continuously monitored elk and deer at Starkey Experimental Forest and Range as well as data on mammals and birds from other studies.  Class size is limited to 22 participants and a minimum of 10 is required.  Workshop participants will accrue 20 contact hours toward The Wildlife Society’s Professional Development Program. Graduate credit from the Univ. of Idaho College of Graduate Studies is available also.

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• Welcome and Introduction

• Review of Basic Concepts
  Populations and samples
  Distributions
  Estimation overview for home range, dispersal distance, habitat use, resource selection, population size, survival rate and fecundity

• Elements of Sampling
  Terminology
  How to select the sample
  Sources of errors
  Simple Random Sampling
  Stratification
  Cluster Sampling
  Hybrid Designs (2-stage)
• Independence of Observations
  Serial Correlation
  Sample size
  Seasonal Effects
  Time-of-day Effects
  Implications
• Home Range Size
  Delineating boundaries
  Utilization volume/probability of use
  Core areas
  Polygon approaches
  

Second day - 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Home Range Size (cont.)
  Parametric probability contours
  Non-parametric utilization volumes
  Kernel density estimators
  Sample size
• Habitat Use
  Habitat types
  Continuous measures of habitat
  Univariate vs multivariate approaches
• Resource Selection
  Univariate approaches
  Log-linear models
  Selectivity indices
  Compositional analysis
  Multiple regression

• Effect of Sample Size on Performance of Resource Selection Methods
  Neu et al. (1974) Chi-square
  Friedman (1973) ANOVA on ranks
  Johnson (1980)
  Aebischer et al. (1996) Compositional Analysis
• Resource Selection Continued
  Principal components analysis  
  Discriminant analysis
  Mahalanobis distance
  Factor analysis
  Logistic regression
  Polytomous logistic regression  
  Discrete choice modeling
  

Third day - 8:15 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• Survival Analysis: Connecting Space Use to Fitness
  Continuous Time Survival
      1. Non-parametric
      2. Parametric
      3. Semi-parametric
      4. Logistic regression
  Discrete Time Approaches
      1. Multinomial models (MARK etc)
      2. Mayfield/Heisey Fuller

This workshop is designed to be as practical as possible. Thus, the following activities are offered on a voluntary basis during labs and outside of formal presentation times.

LOCATION AND TIME

All meetings will be held at the College of Natural Resources (Room 14), 6th and Line Street, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. Meetings will run from 8:15 a.m. on Tuesday, January 3 through noon on the third day or 1:30 p.m. Friday March 10  through 4:00 p.m. on the third day.

PREREGISTRATION

The registration fee is $450 per participant. You may register on-line or print out the registration form and mail with payment to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-1136.  A late fee of $100 will be added if check/PO/Invoice/Credit-Card payment not received 2 weeks prior to start of workshop.

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HOUSING

Housing is the responsibility of the registrant. A block of rooms has been reserved at the University Inn/Best Western. To receive the special rate, please call 208-882-0550 or 800-325-8765 and mention that you are with the Home Range Workshop.

CREDIT

Workshop participants will accrue 20 contact hours toward The Wildlife Society's Professional Development Program, or credits toward other societies (AFS, ESA, SCB) continuing education requirements for professionals.  One graduate credit for Wlf 504 is available from the University of Idaho's College of Graduate Studies for an additional fee.  Graduate credit requires handing in all lab assignments and writing a short paper after the course concludes.

QUESTIONS

For transportation, registration, or logistical information, please call the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources at 208-885-6434 or fish_wildlife@uidaho.edu.