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      A ‘How to’ guide for interpreting parameters in habitat‐selection analyses

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          1. Habitat‐selection analyses allow researchers to link animals to their environment via habitat‐selection or step‐selection functions, and are commonly used to address questions related to wildlife management and conservation efforts. Habitat‐selection analyses that incorporate movement characteristics, referred to as integrated step‐selection analyses, are particularly appealing because they allow modelling of both movement and habitat‐selection processes.

          2. Despite their popularity, many users struggle with interpreting parameters in habitat‐selection and step‐selection functions. Integrated step‐selection analyses also require several additional steps to translate model parameters into a full‐fledged movement model, and the mathematics supporting this approach can be challenging for many to understand.

          3. Using simple examples, we demonstrate how weighted distribution theory and the inhomogeneous Poisson point process can facilitate parameter interpretation in habitat‐selection analyses. Furthermore, we provide a ‘how to’ guide illustrating the steps required to implement integrated step‐selection analyses using the amt package

          4. By providing clear examples with open‐source code, we hope to make habitat‐selection analyses more understandable and accessible to end users.

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          Habitat‐selection analyses allow researchers to link animals to their environment in support of wildlife management and conservation efforts. We provide a ‘how to' guide for correctly interpreting parameters in habitat‐ and step‐selection functions and for implementing integrated step‐selection analyses using the amt package for program R.

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                Contributors
                jfieberg@umn.edu
                Journal
                J Anim Ecol
                J Anim Ecol
                10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2656
                JANE
                The Journal of Animal Ecology
                John Wiley and Sons Inc. (Hoboken )
                0021-8790
                1365-2656
                12 March 2021
                May 2021
                : 90
                : 5 ( doiID: 10.1111/jane.v90.5 )
                : 1027-1043
                Affiliations
                [ 1 ] Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology University of Minnesota St. Paul MN USA
                [ 2 ] Wildlife Science Faculty of Forestry and Forest Ecology University of Goettingen Göttingen Germany
                [ 3 ] Department of Wildland Resources and Ecology Center Utah State University Logan UT USA
                Author notes
                [*] [* ] Correspondence

                John Fieberg

                Email: jfieberg@ 123456umn.edu

                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3180-7021
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1771-7775
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0531-0492
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8764-6976
                Article
                JANE13441
                10.1111/1365-2656.13441
                8251592
                33583036
                67f6af24-1f3f-4555-8835-64083cb46d84
                © 2021 The Authors. Journal of Animal Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society

                This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.

                History
                : 25 November 2020
                : 02 February 2021
                Page count
                Figures: 5, Tables: 1, Pages: 17, Words: 15483
                Funding
                Funded by: Minnesota Agricultural Experimental Station
                Funded by: Utah Agricultural Experimental Station
                Categories
                Applied Ecology
                Landscape Ecology
                Movement Ecology
                Spatial Ecology
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                2.0
                May 2021
                Converter:WILEY_ML3GV2_TO_JATSPMC version:6.0.4 mode:remove_FC converted:02.07.2021

                Ecology
                habitat‐selection function,inhomogeneous poisson point process,integrated step‐selection analysis,intensity function,resource‐selection function,relative selection strength,step‐selection function,telemetry

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