USGS has developed Greater Sage-grouse habitat-selection models for the nesting, summer, late brood rearing, and winter life stages in Wyoming to assess habitat quality and responses change across large landscapes.
Project findings revealed that habitat selection was different across space and through time and will inform population modelling efforts to evaluate the effectiveness of core areas for conservation. These models will enable quantitative investigation of the long-term dynamics and persistence of sage-grouse populations and result in a data-driven decision support tool for managers prioritizing limited resources for conservation and management. Models will incorporate the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation resulting from future oil and gas development and associated road infrastructure and changes in habitat suitability resulting from climate change scenarios.
Habitat prioritization across large landscapes, multiple seasons, and novel areas: an example using greater sage-grouse in Wyoming
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USGS has developed Greater Sage-grouse habitat-selection models for the nesting, summer, late brood rearing, and winter life stages in Wyoming to assess habitat quality and responses change across large landscapes.
Project findings revealed that habitat selection was different across space and through time and will inform population modelling efforts to evaluate the effectiveness of core areas for conservation. These models will enable quantitative investigation of the long-term dynamics and persistence of sage-grouse populations and result in a data-driven decision support tool for managers prioritizing limited resources for conservation and management. Models will incorporate the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation resulting from future oil and gas development and associated road infrastructure and changes in habitat suitability resulting from climate change scenarios.
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Habitat prioritization across large landscapes, multiple seasons, and novel areas: an example using greater sage-grouse in Wyoming
Animal habitat selection is an important and expansive area of research in ecology. In particular, the study of habitat selection is critical in habitat prioritization efforts for species of conservation concern. Landscape planning for species is happening at ever-increasing extents because of the appreciation for the role of landscape-scale patterns in species persistence coupled to improved dataAuthorsBradley C. Fedy, Kevin E. Doherty, Cameron L. Aldridge, Michael S. O'Donnell, Jeffrey L. Beck, Bryan Bedrosian, David Gummer, Matthew J. Holloran, Gregory D. Johnson, Nicholas W. Kaczor, Christopher P. Kirol, Cheryl A. Mandich, David Marshall, Gwyn McKee, Chad Olson, Aaron C. Pratt, Christopher C. Swanson, Brett L. Walker