| Course ID: | WILD 8321E. 4 hours. |
| Course Title: | Wildlife Habitat and Movement Modelling |
Course
Description: | Review of recent advances and approaches in the study of wildlife-habitat relationships, with an emphasis on Resource Selection. Course covers relevant terminology, theory, and quantitative methods required for assessing wildlife-habitat relationships. Course concludes with student projects based on each student’s own data. Experience with R software strongly recommended. |
| Oasis Title: | Wildlife Habitat Modelling |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in WILD 8321 |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
| Prerequisite: | Permission of department |
| Pre or Corequisite: | FANR 6750-6750D or graduate level STAT course or permission of school |
Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | This course will include comprehensive coverage of recent advances and approaches in the study of wildlife-habitat relationships with a particular emphasis on Resource Selection Functions. Within this context, students will learn relevant terminology and definitions, theory, and quantitative methods required for assessing these wildlife-habitat relationships. At the conclusion of this course, students will have 1) an understanding of the statistics required to perform habitat selection models, and 2) a completed analysis of their own data developed from materials learned during this course. |
| Topical Outline: | Course covers relevant terminology, theory, and quantitative methods required for assessing wildlife-habitat relationships. Course concludes with student projects based on each student’s own data. |