Hierarchical Sage-Grouse Population Assessment Tool: Building a Foundation for True Adaptive Management
USGS scientists and colleagues have designed a hierarchical monitoring framework for greater sage-grouse in Nevada, Wyoming, and northeastern California that will provide land managers with a monitoring and detection system to identify sage-grouse breeding locations (known as leks), clusters of leks, and populations where intervention may be necessary to sustain populations and to evaluate effectiveness of conservation efforts.
Incorporating spatial and temporal scales into monitoring strategies can provide more robust detection of population rates of change and indication of whether trajectories for those rates of change are driven by local or regional factors. USGS scientists and colleagues have designed a hierarchical monitoring framework for greater sage-grouse in Nevada, Wyoming, and northeastern California that will assist Federal, State, and private land managers by providing a monitoring and detection system to identify sage-grouse breeding locations (known as leks), clusters of leks, and populations where intervention may be necessary to sustain populations and to evaluate effectiveness of conservation efforts. The team is working with the State wildlife agencies and the Bureau of Land Management to expand these approaches to the geographic range of sage-grouse and will develop methods to assess population change relative to vegetation characteristics, climate, disturbances such as fire and cheatgrass invasion, and other management-relevant gradients.
Range-wide greater sage-grouse hierarchical monitoring framework—Implications for defining population boundaries, trend estimation, and a targeted annual warning system
Designing multi-scale hierarchical monitoring frameworks for wildlife to support management: A sage-grouse case study
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Hierarchical population monitoring of greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Nevada and California—Identifying populations for management at the appropriate spatial scale
USGS scientists and colleagues have designed a hierarchical monitoring framework for greater sage-grouse in Nevada, Wyoming, and northeastern California that will provide land managers with a monitoring and detection system to identify sage-grouse breeding locations (known as leks), clusters of leks, and populations where intervention may be necessary to sustain populations and to evaluate effectiveness of conservation efforts.
Incorporating spatial and temporal scales into monitoring strategies can provide more robust detection of population rates of change and indication of whether trajectories for those rates of change are driven by local or regional factors. USGS scientists and colleagues have designed a hierarchical monitoring framework for greater sage-grouse in Nevada, Wyoming, and northeastern California that will assist Federal, State, and private land managers by providing a monitoring and detection system to identify sage-grouse breeding locations (known as leks), clusters of leks, and populations where intervention may be necessary to sustain populations and to evaluate effectiveness of conservation efforts. The team is working with the State wildlife agencies and the Bureau of Land Management to expand these approaches to the geographic range of sage-grouse and will develop methods to assess population change relative to vegetation characteristics, climate, disturbances such as fire and cheatgrass invasion, and other management-relevant gradients.