[R-sig-eco] GLMM

[Maarten de Groot]

Dear R list,

I am working on land use parameters affecting the habitat selection of a 
bird species. In GIS, I calculated the land use parameters 100 m around 
the individuals. In addition, I also calculated land use in 45 random 
points which are not covering each other in the area where the species 
was not found.
Because the individuals are aggregated in 9 sub populations, many 
samples are overlapping. When I would use a simple logistic regression 
for this would mean that there is pseudo replication. One way to handle 
this is Generalized linear mixed models (GLMM). Now is my question, 
whether I can use GLMM also when there are distinct groups for the 
presence data and not for the absence data. And how should I incorporate 
this in the data set? Are there any other methods to avoid this problem 
beside GLMM or averaging the parameters within the sub populations?

Looking forward to your help,

Maarten