Biologist
Email:
awhipple@usgs.gov
Office Phone:
970-226-9330
ORCID:
0000-0002-0304-7643
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This dataset contains a raster representing current (2017-2020) core sagebrush, growth opportunity areas, and other rangelands on tribal and federal lands that are estimated to be climate resilient into the future (2030-2060). We determined climate-resiliency by comparing current (2017-2020) core sagebrush, growth opportunity areas, and other rangelands to estimated future (2030-2060) conditions of core and growth opportunity areas under mid-century climate change (Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5) conditions (Doherty et al. 2022). The Department of the Interior (DOI) Sagebrush Keystone Initiative (KI) team worked with partners to identify areas within the sagebrush biome for strategic investments in conservation...
Categories: Data;
Types: Downloadable,
GeoTIFF,
Map Service,
Raster;
Tags: California,
Colorado,
Conservation,
Idaho,
Montana, All tags...
Nevada,
Oregon,
Rangeland,
Restoration,
Sagebrush,
Utah,
Wyoming,
biota,
ecosystems,
environment,
natural resource management,
terrestrial ecosystems,
western United States, Fewer tags
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The sagebrush ecosystem spans over 175 million acres in the western United States, and is biologically, culturally, and economically significant to the country. Many disturbances including prolonged drought, pinyon-juniper encroachment, and cycles of invasive grasses and wildfire, pose significant threats to the resilience of the sagebrush biome. To conserve the sagebrush biome and promote community and economic sustainability, the Department of the Interior’s bureaus and offices are working together with many public and private partners to implement a “defend and grow the core” approach to conserve remaining intact sagebrush habitat and ecosystem functions, as well as restore other habitat types which are important...
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: California,
Colorado,
Conservation,
Ecology,
Idaho, All tags...
Montana,
Nevada,
Oregon,
Rangeland,
Restoration,
Sagebrush,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Utah,
Wyoming,
biota,
ecosystems,
environment,
natural resource management,
terrestrial ecosystems,
western United States, Fewer tags
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This database contains literature citations and associated abstracts pertaining to the ecology and hydrology of terminal lakes in the Great Basin region of the western United States. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, nor did we perform a systematic meta-analysis; rather, literature records were included based on topical relevance.
Categories: Data;
Tags: Ecology,
Great Basin,
Hydrology,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
biota, All tags...
birds,
ecosystems,
environment,
inlandWaters,
limnology,
saline lakes,
surface water (non-marine),
terminal lakes,
waterbirds,
western United States,
worldwide, Fewer tags
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The distance within which populations respond to features in a landscape (scale of effect) can indicate how disturbance and management may affect wildlife. Using annual counts of male Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) attending 584 leks in southwest Wyoming (2003-2019) and estimates of sagebrush cover from the Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP), we used a scale selection approach to jointly estimate the scale of effect and the effect of sagebrush cover in the surrounding landscape for sage-grouse population trends. We estimated these parameters using a state-space model fit with a Bayesian approach. Data formatting necessary for this analysis produced data stored in two...
Tags: Ecology,
Southwest Wyoming,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States of America,
Wyoming, All tags...
Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative,
biota,
density dependence,
landscape,
population dynamics,
scale, Fewer tags
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