Integrating Resource Selection Information with Spatial Capture-Recapture

11 1. Understanding space usage and resource selection is a primary focus of many studies 12 of animal populations. Usually, such studies are based on location data obtained from 13 telemetry, and resource selection functions (RSF) are used for inference. Another important 14 focus of wildlife research is estimation and modeling population size and density. Recently 15 developed spatial capture-recapture (SCR) models accomplish this objective using individual 16 encounter history data with auxiliary spatial information on location of capture. SCR models 17 include encounter probability functions that are intuitively related to RSFs, but to date, no 18 one has extended SCR models to allow for explicit inference about space usage and resource 19 selection. 20 2. In this paper we develop the first statistical framework for jointly modeling space usage, 21