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A habitat-centered framework for wildlife climate change vulnerability assessments: Application to Gunnison sage-grouse

February 15, 2024

The persistence of threatened wildlife species depends on successful conservation and restoration of habitats, but climate change and other stressors make these tasks increasingly challenging. Applying climate change vulnerability analyses to contemporary wildlife management can be difficult because most analyses predict direct effects of future climate on wildlife species at broad geographic scales, rather than assessing their habitats at local scales (

Publication Year 2024
Title A habitat-centered framework for wildlife climate change vulnerability assessments: Application to Gunnison sage-grouse
DOI 10.1002/ecs2.4768
Authors Nathan Van Schmidt, Jessica Shyvers, Julie A. Heinrichs, D. Joanne Saher, Cameron Aldridge
Publication Type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Series Title Ecosphere
Index ID 70253919
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse
USGS Organization Fort Collins Science Center
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