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FY2010In addition to regional Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge projects that the Great Basin LCC (GBLCC) supports, GBLCC staff lend technical expertise to a range of projects and have contributed to important regional publications on a range of subjects. These publications range in type from textbooks, to management-oriented science and conservation plans, to scientific papers and have covered subjects like wind erosion following fire, soil microbiota response to drought, plant community resilience to invasive species, and alpine plant communities. In many cases these publications form foundations for scientifically-informed management strategies across the Great Basin.
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: California,
Conservation Design,
Conservation Planning,
Data Acquisition and Development,
Federal resource managers, All tags...
Great Basin,
Idaho,
Interested public,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Nevada,
Oregon,
Project,
Publication,
Report,
Scientific Papers,
State agencies,
Utah,
alpine communities,
birds,
climate change,
completed,
erosion,
interagency,
invasive species,
peer-reviewed,
precipitation,
resilience,
resistance,
restoration,
soil microbes,
wildlife, Fewer tags
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Land managers are responsible for developing effective strategies for conserving and restoring Great Basin ecosystems in the face of invasive species, conifer expansion, and altered fire regimes. A warming climate is magnifying the effects of these threats and adding urgency to implementation of management practices that will maintain or improve ecosystem functioning. This Factsheet Series was developed to provide land managers with brief summaries of the best available information on contemporary management issues to facilitate science delivery and foster effective management. Each peer-reviewed factsheet was developed as a collaborative effort among knowledgeable scientists and managers. The series begins with...
Categories: Data,
Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: California,
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE,
Great Basin,
Idaho,
LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags...
Nevada,
Oregon,
Publication,
Utah,
Wildland fire,
apen,
biota,
completed,
conifer,
erosion,
fuels,
grazing,
land management,
native seed,
pinyon-juniper,
resilience,
restoration,
sagebrush, Fewer tags
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FY2011Aspen populations are in decline across western North America due to altered fire regimes, herbivory, drought, pathogens, and competition with conifers. Aspen stands typically support higher avian biodiversity than surrounding habitats, and maintaining current distributions of several avian species is likely tied to persistence of aspen on the landscape. We are examining effects of climate change on aspen and associated avian communities in isolated mountain ranges of the northern Great Basin, by coupling empirical models of avian-habitat relationships with spatially-explicit landscape simulations of vegetation and disturbance dynamics (using LANDIS-II) under various climate change scenarios. We are addressing...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Academics & scientific researchers,
Data Acquisition and Development,
Federal resource managers,
LANDIS-II,
LANDIS-II, All tags...
LANDIS-II,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Monitoring,
Nevada,
Nevada,
Nevada,
Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection,
Project,
State agencies,
aspen,
avian,
avian,
avian,
biodiversity,
biodiversity,
biodiversity,
birds,
birds,
birds,
climate change,
climate change,
climate change,
completed,
empirical models,
empirical models,
empirical models,
fire,
fire,
fire,
northern great basin,
populus tremuloides,
populus tremuloides,
populus tremuloides,
wildfire,
wildfire,
wildfire, Fewer tags
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Aspen is an environmentally, economically, and socially important species in the western U.S. It is typically the most abundant deciduous tree species in mountainous landscapes of the western U.S., providing food and habitat for a variety of wildlife, including black bear, deer, elk, moose, and numerous bird species. Aspen woodlands also provide high quality forage for livestock and draw tourists to the region to view the golden vistas that form in the fall. However, aspen is currently declining across large portions of the West and it’s estimated that approximately 40% of western aspen will be without suitable climate conditions within 50 years. In the northern and central Rocky Mountains, it’s thought that reduced...
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2014,
CASC,
Completed,
Data Visualization & Tools,
Data Visualization & Tools, All tags...
Drought,
Drought,
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Fire,
Fire,
Forests,
Forests,
Landscapes,
Landscapes,
Northwest,
Northwest,
Northwest,
Northwest CASC,
Plants,
Plants,
Populus tremuloides,
Projects by Region,
Rivers, Streams and Lakes,
Rivers, Streams and Lakes,
Science Tools for Managers,
Science Tools for Managers,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Wildlife and Plants,
Wildlife and Plants,
fire,
snowdrift moisture, Fewer tags
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This project expands upon a large, multi-agency collaborative study (Univ. of Idaho, Idaho Game and Fish, BLM, Great Basin LCC & two grazing Associations) evaluating the impacts of alternative grazing systems on sage-grouse over a 10-year period using a staggered entry BACI design. This project will evaluate the effects of grazing management prescriptions (intended to be compatible with greater sage-grouse) on other sagebrush-obligate or associated avian species. The results will contribute to an adaptive management process by: 1) assessing current state of populations of sagebrush-dependent birds as well as limiting factors, 2) compilation of models describing population-habitat relationships that can lead to species-habitat...
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