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Additional Mapping Tools for Great Basin Wildfire and Conifer Management to Increase Operational Resilience: Integrating Sagebrush Ecosystem and Sage-grouse Response

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2019

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Ricca, M.A., and Coates, P.S., 2019, Additional mapping tools for Great Basin wildfire and conifer management to increase operational resilience: integrating sagebrush ecosystem and sage-grouse response: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P960W8MD.

Summary

Conservation planning efforts for sagebrush ecosystems of western North America increasingly focus on enhancing operational resilience though decision-support tools that link spatially explicit variation in soil and plant processes to outcomes of biotic and abiotic disturbances spanning large spatial extents. However, failure to consider higher trophic-level fauna (e.g. wildlife) in these tools can hinder efforts to operationalize resilience owing to spatiotemporal lags between slower reorganization of plant and soil processes following disturbance, and faster behavioral and demographic responses of fauna to disturbance. These spatial products provide additional examples for managers of sagebrush ecosystems and greater sage-grouse [...]

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Point of Contact :
Peter S Coates
Originator :
Mark Ricca, Peter S Coates
Metadata Contact :
Michael P Chenaille
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U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Western Ecological Research Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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These data are meant to aid land managers in their decision making with respect to land management for sagebrush ecosystems in the Great Basin.

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The authors of these data require that data users contact them regarding intended use and to assist with understanding limitations and interpretation. Unless otherwise stated, all data, metadata and related materials are considered to satisfy the quality standards relative to the purpose for which the data were collected. Although these data and associated metadata have been reviewed for accuracy and completeness and approved for release by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P960W8MD

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