Abstract:Two methods, the forage ratio selection index and contingency table analysis, were used in 2001 to describe habitat selection of both giant pandas and grazing livestock at the Yele Nature Reserve, located in the Xiaoxiangling Mountains of Sichuan Province in China‘s Southwest. We used the degree, aspect, position and shape of slope, vegetation type, forest origin, tree height, canopy, shrub height, shrub coverage and bamboo coverage to characterize habitats of both the giant panda and livestock. The economy...