We evaluated brood-rearing habitat selection and brood survival of greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter, sage-grouse) in Long Valley, California, an area where the water rights are primarily owned by the city of Los Angeles and water is used locally to irrigate for livestock. This area thus represents a unique balance between the needs of wildlife and people that could increasingly define future water management. In this study, sage-grouse broods moved closer to the edge of mesic areas and used more interior areas during the late brood-rearing period, selecting for greener areas after 1 July. Mesic areas were particularly important during dry years, with broods using areas farther interior than...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Bistate,
California,
Ecology,
Land Use Change,
Long Valley, All tags...
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States of America,
Water Resources,
Wildlife Biology,
biota,
ecology,
human impacts,
land use change,
native species,
water resource management,
water supply and demand, Fewer tags
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