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The Gunnison sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus) habitat suitability surface for Crawford satellite population represented here reflects summer season at a landscape scale context (window extents [radius] of 1 km, 3 km, and 6.4 km). Habitat suitability estimated for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service critical habitat extent (southwestern Colorado). We developed habitat selection models for Gunnison sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus), a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. We followed a management-centric modeling approach that sought to balance the need to evaluate the consistency of key habitat conditions and improvement actions across multiple, distinct populations, while allowing context-specific...
Tags: CO,
Colorado,
Conservation,
Crawford satellite population,
Gunnison sage-grouse, All tags...
Habitat selection,
Landscape scale,
Logistic regression,
Resource selection function,
Southwestern Colorado,
Summer season,
United States,
biota,
environment, Fewer tags
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We present five hierarchical demarcations of greater sage-grouse population structure, representing the spatial structure of populations which can exist due to differences in dispersal abilities, landscape configurations, and mating behavior. These demarcations represent Thiessen polygons of graph constructs (least-cost path [LCP] minimum spanning trees [MST; LCP-MST]) representing greater sage-grouse population structure. Because the graphs included locational information of sage-grouse breeding sites, we have provided polygons of the population structure. We also present two results using graph analytics representing node/connectivity importance based on our population structure. Understanding wildlife population...
Tags: California,
Centrocercus urophasianus,
Colorado,
Idaho,
Montana, All tags...
Nevada,
North Dakota,
Oregon,
South Dakota,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States,
Utah,
Washington,
Wildlife Biology,
Wyoming,
biota,
centrality measures,
connectivity (structural, functional, potential),
greater sage-grouse,
least-cost paths,
population structure,
western United States, Fewer tags
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Here, we present greater sage-grouse nesting habitat suitability 15-years after simulating a fire and planting of sagebrush. The planting design used here reflects the multi-year (my) habitat restoration effort where we used several moderate (sm) patches with high density (hd) planting of sagebrush. The planting was targeted for nesting habitat, and the data reflects simulated habitat conditions in 2030. To assess the degree to which transplanting sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) could quickly restore former sage-grouse habitat and the strategies by which greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter, sage-grouse) habitat restoration is best accomplished, we linked vegetation transitions with habitat selection...
Tags: Fire,
Greater sage-grouse,
Habitat selection,
NV,
Nevada, All tags...
Planting design,
Sagebrush,
State-and-transition model,
Transplant,
Tuscarora,
United States,
Vegetation restoration,
Vegetation transition,
biota,
environment, Fewer tags
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Habitat restoration efforts to conserve wildlife species are often conducted along a range of local site conditions, with limited information available to gauge relative outcomes for habitat suitability among sites and identify those that may lead to the greatest returns on restoration investment. We leveraged existing resource selection function models to generate heatmaps of spatially varying habitat suitability improvement potential for the Gunnison Sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus) based on a suite of habitat restoration actions deployed across crucial habitats within six remaining satellite populations. We first simulated expected change in model covariates (habitat features) from a suite of restoration actions...
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Habitat restoration efforts to conserve wildlife species are often conducted along a range of local site conditions, with limited information available to gauge relative outcomes for habitat suitability among sites and identify those that may lead to the greatest returns on restoration investment. We leveraged existing resource selection function models to generate heatmaps of spatially varying habitat suitability improvement potential for the Gunnison Sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus) based on a suite of habitat restoration actions deployed across crucial habitats within six remaining satellite populations. We first simulated expected change in model covariates (habitat features) from a suite of restoration actions...
Tags: Centrocercus minimus,
Colorado,
Gunnison Sage-grouse,
Gunnison Sage-grouse range,
Sagebrush biome, All tags...
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
cheatgrass,
ecology,
habitat suitability indices,
habitats,
mesic improvements,
pinyon-juniper,
remediation,
sagebrush, Fewer tags
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