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A neutral landscape approach to evaluating the umbrella species concept for greater sage-grouse in northeast Wyoming, USA

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Start Date
1994
End Date
2018

Citation

Duchardt, C.J., Monroe, A.P., Edmunds, D.R., Holloran, M.J., Holloran, A.G., and Aldridge, C.L., 2023, A neutral landscape approach to evaluating the umbrella species concept for greater sage-grouse in northeast Wyoming, USA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9MLURH7.

Summary

Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) has been identified as a potential umbrella species with the assumption that conservation of their habitats in sagebrush ecosystems may benefit multiple other wildlife species, but co-occurrence with an umbrella species does not necessarily guarantee species will respond positively to management for sage-grouse. This may be particularly true for ecotones, such as at the eastern edge of the sage-grouse range where sagebrush steppe and Great Plains grasslands intersect. We used a novel application of neutral landscape models (Etherington et al., 2015) to evaluate observed and expected overlap between greater sage-grouse habitat (1994-2010; Fedy et al., 2014) and distribution of eight grassland [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Adrian P Monroe
Process Contact :
Adrian P Monroe
Originator :
Courtney (Contractor) J Duchardt, Adrian P Monroe, David R Edmunds, Matthew J Holloran, Alison G Holloran, Cameron L Aldridge
Metadata Contact :
FORT Data Management
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Fort Collins Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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data_nlm_umbrella.xml
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abund_50_300.tif 225.81 KB image/geotiff
abund_75_300.tif 202.48 KB image/geotiff
abund_90_300.tif 186.59 KB image/geotiff
grspFP90.tif 893.9 KB image/geotiff
grspFP150.tif 421.55 KB image/geotiff
grspFP300.tif 107.26 KB image/geotiff
grspFP450.tif 48.7 KB image/geotiff
grspFP600.tif 28.06 KB image/geotiff
holaFP300.tif 136.55 KB image/geotiff
larbFP300.tif 131.88 KB image/geotiff
laspFP300.tif 148.62 KB image/geotiff
loshFP300.tif 98.59 KB image/geotiff
mask90.tif 1.47 MB image/geotiff
mask150.tif 689.27 KB image/geotiff
mask300.tif 174.84 KB image/geotiff
mask450.tif 78.94 KB image/geotiff
mask600.tif 45.19 KB image/geotiff
nestGRSG90.tif 1.24 MB image/geotiff
nestGRSG150.tif 583.62 KB image/geotiff
nestGRSG300.tif 154.2 KB image/geotiff
nestGRSG450.tif 72.48 KB image/geotiff
nestGRSG600.tif 42.95 KB image/geotiff
rich_50_300.tif 226.82 KB image/geotiff
rich_75_300.tif 202.71 KB image/geotiff
rich_90_300.tif 188.94 KB image/geotiff
summerGRSG300.tif 142.52 KB image/geotiff
vespFP300.tif 156.75 KB image/geotiff
wekiFP300.tif 93.92 KB image/geotiff
wemeFP300.tif 166.51 KB image/geotiff
code.zip 8.19 KB application/zip

Purpose

Rasters provided here were used to simulate neutral landscapes and evaluate observed and expected overlap of greater sage-grouse habitat and density and distribution of eight grassland songbird species (Duchardt et al., 2023). Raster data are formatted to be used directly with the NLMpy library in Python (Etherington et al., 2015). These datasets and associated code are made available so our analyses may be reproduced or applied to future research questions.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9MLURH7

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