Resistance and resilience concepts provide an important framework for sagebrush habitat management. Existing spatial products have been developed using NRCS soil data; models using new data and methods can improve these products.
Resistance and resilience concepts provide an important framework for sagebrush habitat management. Existing spatial products have been developed using NRCS soil data; models using new data and methods can improve these products. USGS scientists are using information on soils, climate, solar radiation, and daily snowmelt to develop new continuous estimates of seasonal moisture balances and refined soil temperature and moisture regime estimates. Enhancements will account for temporal lags of water release, modified temperature, seasonal moisture budgets, and refinements of moisture-temperature regimes. These results will help provide enhanced understanding of historic and future conditions that may influence the distribution of invasive plants and invasion risk, the distribution and dynamics of sagebrush, and recovery rates. Model and data development have been completed in the initial pilot project area in southwestern Wyoming and this effort is now being expanded across the entire sagebrush
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Resistance and resilience concepts provide an important framework for sagebrush habitat management. Existing spatial products have been developed using NRCS soil data; models using new data and methods can improve these products.
Resistance and resilience concepts provide an important framework for sagebrush habitat management. Existing spatial products have been developed using NRCS soil data; models using new data and methods can improve these products. USGS scientists are using information on soils, climate, solar radiation, and daily snowmelt to develop new continuous estimates of seasonal moisture balances and refined soil temperature and moisture regime estimates. Enhancements will account for temporal lags of water release, modified temperature, seasonal moisture budgets, and refinements of moisture-temperature regimes. These results will help provide enhanced understanding of historic and future conditions that may influence the distribution of invasive plants and invasion risk, the distribution and dynamics of sagebrush, and recovery rates. Model and data development have been completed in the initial pilot project area in southwestern Wyoming and this effort is now being expanded across the entire sagebrush
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