Microhabitat Preference Analysis
Microhabitat Preference Analysis is a quantitative ecological method used to determine which fine-scale environmental features — such as vegetation structure, substrate type, temperature, or cover — animals actively select beyond what is randomly available to them. Widely applied in veterinary science, wildlife biology, and ethology, it compares the characteristics of locations an animal uses against those of randomly sampled available locations to infer habitat preference, avoidance, or random use.
Source record
Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.
- Morris, D. W. (1987). Ecological scale and habitat use. Ecology, 68(2), 362–369. · DOI 10.2307/1939267
- Manly, B. F. J., McDonald, L. L., Thomas, D. L., McDonald, T. L., & Erickson, W. P. (2002). Resource Selection by Animals: Statistical Design and Analysis for Field Studies (2nd ed.). Kluwer Academic. · ISBN 978-1402006562
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Related methods
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