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GNLCC Multi-dimensional Synthesis The GNLCC Multi-dimensional Synthesis is a synthesis of existing information in four categories to promote a common understanding of situation, existing information and information gaps, as well as providing an index of programmatic, resource and other climate and landscape related information for GNLCC. The synthesis includes: the GNLCC Resource Directory (organizations and initiatives); climate and ecological response (what does existing and projected climate information say and what are expected ecological effects); and monitoring (who is monitoring what).FY2011Objectives:Provide a Framework from which to organize the various monitoring and evaluation efforts. Included are key monitoring and evaluation questions... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, British Columbia, CO-2, CO-3, CO-3, All tags... CO-3, CO-3, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, Conservation NGOs, Data Acquisition and Development, GNLCC, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Project, Report, Synthesis, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags Evaluating Species Management Guidance and Monitoring Programs for the Great Basin in Nevada FY2013The proposed project’s objective is to provide a scientific review of(1) current priority species management practices in Nevada, (2) status of our combined scientific knowledge of priority species’ needs and gaps in that knowledge, and(3) adequacy of current monitoring programs of priority species.The project builds on recent, well-researched species conservation plans for Nevada (GBBO 2010, NWPT 2012), and it will leverage funds that are already obligated to research on scientifically based disturbance buffer recommendations and to evaluate GBBO’s statewide landbird monitoring program, the Nevada Bird Count.The outcome of the proposed work will be an online open-source compendium document that summarizes... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Birds, Birds, Birds, Conservation Design, Federal resource managers, All tags... Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, onGoing, species management, species management, species management, Fewer tags Forecasting Changes in Sagebrush Distribution and Abundance Under Climate Change: Integration of Spatial, Temporal, and Mechanistic Models FY2014Although the future of sage grouse depends on the future of sagebrush, we have limited ability to anticipate impacts of climate change on sagebrush populations. Current efforts to forecast sagebrush habitat typically rely on species distribution models (SDMs), which suffer from a variety of well-known weaknesses. However, by integrating SDMs with complementary research approaches, such as historical data analysis and mechanistic models, we can provide increased confidence in projections of habitat change. Our goal is to forecast the effect of climate change on the distribution and abundance of big sagebrush in order to inform conservation planning, and sage grouse management in particular, across the Intermountain... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation Planning, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, All tags... Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, LCC Network Science Catalog, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, big sagebrush, big sagebrush, big sagebrush, big sagebrush, climate change, climate change, climate change, climate change, completed, modeling, modeling, modeling, modeling, sagebrush, Fewer tags Matching support to JFSP projects on post-fire recovery of sagebrush and perennial grasses FY2017Increasing effectiveness of post-fire treatments is a management priority, such as is emphasized in Secretarial Order #3336 on rangeland fire and restoration, which prescribes a programmatic, longer-term approach that accommodates the layering of different treatments in sagebrush-steppe rangelands. The phasing of treatments by applying them in different post-fire years is an important part of wildfire response that, along with timing of livestock grazing resumption, likely affects overall project success - but is yet under studied. This projects objective is to determine the incremental gains in increasing desirable perennials and decreasing exotic annual grasses with the phasing of land management actions... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: California, California, California, Conservation Planning, Federal resource managers, All tags... Fire, Great Basin, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Private land owners, Project, Soda Fire, Soda Fire, Soda Fire, State agencies, desert, desert, desert, land management, land management, land management, native plants, native plants, native plants, onGoing, restoration, restoration, restoration, vegetation treatment, vegetation treatment, vegetation treatment, Fewer tags Characterization of Montane Ecosystems, Their Microclimates, and Wildlife Distribution and Abundance Across the Hydrographic Great Basin FY2013This project retrieves four years of data from over 200 temperature sensors nested within 28 sites across ~40 million hectares of the hydrographic Great Basin. The sensors span all major aspects and up to 700 m of elevation within sites, and occur in numerous management jurisdictions in 18 mountain ranges plus other areas not in ranges. This project: Quantifies the variability of climate at micro-, meso-, and macroscales across the Basin, and across diel, seasonal, and interannual periods. Informs management and conservation efforts, in terms of helping calibrate and refine the climatic stage upon which all biological actors and efforts hinge (Beier and Brost 2010). Feeds into other bioclimatic and wildlife... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, 2014, Academics & scientific researchers, California, California, All tags... California, California, California, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation Planning, Conservation Planning, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Montane, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Pika, Pika, Pika, Pika, Pika, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, Report, State agencies, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Assessment, alpine, alpine, alpine, alpine, completed, montane, montane, montane, montane, mountain, mountain, mountain, mountain, talus, talus, talus, talus, Fewer tags Evaluating Riparian and Meadow Vegetation Change Relative to Climate, Restoration and Land Management FY2015Collaborators are investigating the effect of low rise dams water supply, ecosystem functions and health, and habitat for a wide range of organisms, including sage grouse. They are assessing the economic cost and attitudes of ranchers and managers towards both low-rise dams and proposed re-introductions of beavers. Remote sensing is used to identify locations of incised streams across the Great Basin. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Conservation Planning, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, All tags... Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, Riparian, State agencies, aquatic, aquatic, aquatic, aquatic, climate change, climate change, climate change, climate change, management, management, management, management, onGoing, plants, plants, plants, plants, treatment, treatment, treatment, treatment, wetland, wetland, wetland, wetland, Fewer tags Effects of Treatments on the Connectivity and Fragmentation of Wildlife Populations across the Great Basin FY2016This project will evaluate the effects of vegetation treatments on population connectivity, genetic diversity and gene flow of wildlife species across the full extent of the Great Basin LCC. The recently approved BLM and Forest Service Land Use Plan Amendments will implement millions of acres of treatments in support of greater sage-grouse conservation. It is essential to evaluate the potential benefits and risks of these treatments on the connectivity and fragmentation of the landscape for multiple non-target species. We will use a dynamic landscape model to simulate fire and treatments, allowing each to vary by type (e.g., juniper removal, prescribed fire), extent, and influence on vegetation and fuels.... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, CA1, CA1, CA1, All tags... CA1, CA4, CA4, CA4, CA4, CA8, CA8, CA8, CA8, Conservation Planning, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, ID1, ID1, ID1, ID1, ID2, ID2, ID2, ID2, LCC Network Science Catalog, NV2, NV2, NV2, NV2, NV4, NV4, NV4, NV4, OR1, OR2, OR2, OR2, OR2, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, State agencies, UT1, UT1, UT1, UT1, UT2, UT2, UT2, UT2, UT4, UT4, UT4, UT4, conifer, conifer, conifer, conifer, connectivity, connectivity, connectivity, connectivity, juniper, onGoing, projections, projections, projections, projections, restoration, restoration, restoration, restoration, species impacts, species impacts, species impacts, species impacts, Fewer tags Effects of Genotype and Management Treatments of Native and Invasive Herbs on Success of Sagebrush Restoration FY2013The increase in large wildfires at a time when habitat for Greater Sage Grouse and other species dependent on big sagebrush has also increased has led to substantial needs for big sagebrush seeds. Significant decisions on which sagebrush seed to use and on management treatments that affect competing herb layers on the same restoration sites affect the trajectory of habitat.This project will evaluate how seed source, specifically genotype and climate-of-origin, interact with landscape-scale and replicated treatments (fencing, herbicide application, mowing, and seeding). Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, 2014, 2015, Academics & scientific researchers, Cheatgrass, All tags... Conservation Design, Decision Support, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Project, Publication, Report, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Training/Outreach/Workshop, User Manual, cheatgrass, cheatgrass, cheatgrass, cheatgrass, completed, genotype, genotype, genotype, genotype, genotype, sage grouse, sage grouse, sage grouse, sage grouse, sage grouse, seed source, seed source, seed source, seed source, seed source, wildfire, wildfire, Fewer tags Providing High Resolution Connectivity Maps for Greater Sage-grouse in the Great Northern Landscape Using State of the Art Genomics Greater sage-grouse genetic connectivity is essential to the species persistence across the Great Northern landscape; without such connectivity the greater sage-grouse may suffer the same fate as many other related species of grouse, which disappeared from the middle and eastern portion of the United States due to loss of habitat coupled with inbreeding depression. To prevent isolation in the face of energy development and other landscape changes it is essential that we evaluate both fine-scale connectivity and assign relative importance to different leks (breeding populations) on the landscape. This massive task cannot be accomplished with existing tools and maps; fortunately, advanced molecular genomic analyses... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, AZ-1, Academics & scientific researchers, Alberta, Arizona, All tags... Arizona, CA-1, CA-1, CA-1, CA-1, CA-4, CA-4, CA-4, CA-4, CA-8, CA-8, CA-8, CA-8, CO-2, CO-2, CO-2, CO-2, CO-3, CO-3, CO-3, CO-3, CO-4, CO-4, CO-4, CO-4, CO-5, CO-5, CO-5, CO-5, California, California, California, California, California, Climate Change, Co, Co, Co, Co, Colorado, Colorado Plateau Management Zone, Columbia Basin Management Zone, Data Acquisition and Development, FY 2012, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Great Plains Management Zone, Greater Sage-Grouse, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Map, Methodology/Protocol, Monitoring, Montana, ND-1, ND-1, ND-1, ND-1, NE-3, NE-3, NE-3, NE-3, NM-3, NM-3, NM-3, NM-3, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, NV-4, NV-4, NV-4, NV-4, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Northern Great Basin Management Zone, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, Oregon, Project, Publication, Rocky Mountain, SD-1, SD-1, SD-1, SD-1, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, Saskatchewan, Snake River Plain Management Zone, South Dakota, Southern Great Basin Management Zone, State agencies, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-2, UT-2, UT-2, UT-2, UT-3, UT-3, UT-3, UT-3, UT-4, UT-4, UT-4, UT-4, Utah, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Wyoming, Wyoming Basins Management Zone, completed, environment, Fewer tags Research and Publications Authored and Supported by GBLCC Staff 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 Identification of Fire Refugia in Rocky Mountain Ecosystems of the U.S. and Canada: Development and Application of the Refugium Concept for Biodiversity Conservation over Large Spatial and Temporal Scales We will develop an approach to identify fire refugia in Rocky Mountain ecosystems of the U.S. and Canada then test the function of refugia for biodiversity conservation under current and future climate/fire scenarios. Our products will be designed to inform decision-making in land/easement acquisition, identification of critical areas for maintaining landscape and process connectivity/permeability, and extension of the temporal context for spatial conservation decision making. The approach will be testable for transferability to other locations and ecosystems.FY2013Objectives:The proposed project will provide a science application for focused resource conservation by developing and testing the concept of refugia... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, British Columbia, Canada Lynx, Canadian Rockies, Canadian Rockies Greater Ecosystem, All tags... Climate Change, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Data Acquisition and Development, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Greater Salmon-Selway Ecosystem, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Map, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Natural Fire Regimes, Project, Report, Rocky Mountain, Salmon-Selway Ecosystem, State agencies, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, climate refugia, completed, conservation of species and habitats, environment, fire refugia, Fewer tags SageSTEP Longterm Ecological Monitoring Network Proposed work will monitor for five years vegetation, fuels, wildlife, insects, and weather at 10 Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project (SageSTEP) sites, all of which have been treated to reduce either juniper encroachment (woodland sites) or cheatgrass invasion (sagebrush/cheatgrass sites). Monitoring of treatment response over the long term will lead to a better understanding of the extent to which managers can manipulate vegetation, fuels, and wildlife habitat in the context of climate change.FY2010Objectives:1) assess longterm trajectories in populations of key plant and animal species, and link these trajectories to management restoration treatments and to climate change; 2) measure total ecosystem... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Columbia Basin, Ecological Monitoring, Federal resource managers, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, All tags... Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Monitoring, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Project, Report, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage Step Bridge Creek 5mi Buffer, Sage Step Devine Rdge 5mi Buffer, Sage Step Moses Coulee 5mi Buffer, Sage Step Saddle Mtn 5mi Buffer, Sage-Steppe, SageSTEP, Training/Outreach/Workshop, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Website, completed, environment, Fewer tags A New Model of Watershed-scale Aquatic Monitoring from the Crown of the Continent: Quantifying the Benefits of Watershed Restoration in the Face of Climate Change This project will support the design and development of a large-scale aquatics monitoring program across 1.5 million acres of the Crown of the Continent, as part of a 10-year, landscape-level restoration project established and funded by the U.S. Forest Service in 2010. The Forest Service has directed each of ten Cooperative Forest Landscape Restoration Program projects to develop and implement a large-scale monitoring program to inventory current resource conditions and facilitate the short- and long-term evaluation of the effectiveness of restoration projects to inform future management strategies and actions: the work proposed here would address significant challenges associated with maintaining or improving... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Bull Trout, Climate Change, Completed, Cutthroat Trout, Datasets/Database, All tags... Federal resource managers, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCCResourceType, Land Use Change, MT-1, Monitoring, Montana, Montana, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, Report, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rocky Mountain, Southwest Crown of the Continent, State agencies, completed, environment, Fewer tags Klamath Basin Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Climate Change Science Internship The Quartz Valley Indian Reservation will partner with tribes, federal agencies and higher education institutions in the Klamath Basin on a tribal youth intern program for the summer of 2014. This program will build on current efforts to integrate western science and TEK for climate change planning and adaptation in the Klamath Basin. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, Academics & scientific researchers, California, California, California, All tags... California, California, California, Climate change, Climate change, Conservation Design, Conservation Design, Conservation Planning, Conservation Planning, Federal resource managers, Great Basin LCC, Great Basin LCC, Great Basin LCC, Great Basin LCC, Great Basin LCC, Great Basin LCC, Klamath Basin, Klamath Basin, Klamath River, Klamath River, Klamath River, Klamath River, Klamath River, Klamath River, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog - LCCScienceCatalog, NPLCC, NPLCC, NPLCC, NPLCC, NPLCC, NPLCC, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Project, Report, Report, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Traditional Ecological knowledge, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Tribes, aquatic habitat, aquatic habitat, aquatic habitat, aquatic habitat, aquatic habitat, aquatic habitat, completed, groundwater, groundwater, groundwater, groundwater, groundwater, groundwater, onGoing, restoration, restoration, restoration, restoration, restoration, restoration, thermal refugia, thermal refugia, thermal refugia, thermal refugia, thermal refugia, thermal refugia, Fewer tags Dust Erosion Following Wildfires and Drought FY2011Increasingly large wildfires in the Great Basin and Columbia Plateau have led to large dust storms in areas historically without them. Large dust storms have adversely affected human health, energy production operations, soil fertility, and mountain snowpack hydrology. USGS research efforts have investigated the causes and consequences of post-fire dust storms. Publications from this work are being used by managers with the Bureau of Land Management, Department of Energy, and other land managers to develop management practices that will minimize dust production. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Aeolian transport, Data Acquisition and Development, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, All tags... Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Jefferson Fire, Jefferson Fire, Jefferson Fire, Jefferson Fire, LCC Network Science Catalog, LiDAR, LiDAR, LiDAR, LiDAR, Microsite, Microsite, Microsite, Microsite, PM10, PM10, PM10, PM10, Potential dust emission, Potential dust emission, Potential dust emission, Potential dust emission, Project, Publication, Shrub steppe, Shrub steppe, Shrub steppe, Shrub steppe, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, Wildfire, Wildfire, Wildfire, Wildfire, completed, horizontal sediment fluz, horizontal sediment fluz, horizontal sediment fluz, horizontal sediment fluz, vertical flux, vertical flux, vertical flux, vertical flux, Fewer tags Using Resilience and Resistance Concepts to Develop a Strategic Approach for Managing Threats to Sagebrush Ecosystems and Greater Sage-Grouse in the Eastern Portion of the Range FY2015Persistent ecosystem and anthropogenic disturbances and stressors are threatening sustainability of sagebrush ecosystems in the western US, and managers and policy makers are seeking strategic, holistic approaches for species conservation and ecosystem restoration. Recent research indicates that an understanding of ecosystem resilience to disturbance and resistance to nonnative invasive species can be used to prioritize management activities across large landscapes and determine the most appropriate actions at project scales. An interagency WAFWA working group has linked this understanding with breeding habitat probabilities for Greater and Gunnison sage-grouse, and developed a habitat decision matrix for... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Colorado, Colorado, Colorado, Colorado, Conservation Design, All tags... Conservation Planning, Federal resource managers, GRSG, GRSG, GRSG, GRSG, LCC Network Science Catalog, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, North Dakota, North Dakota, North Dakota, North Dakota, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Presentation, Project, Report, South Dakota, South Dakota, South Dakota, South Dakota, Southern Rockies, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, artemisia tridentata, artemisia tridentata, artemisia tridentata, artemisia tridentata, completed, resilience, resistance, resistance, resistance, resistance, sagebrush, sagebrush, sagebrush, sagebrush, Fewer tags Development of Tools and Technology to Improve the Success and Planning of Restoration of Big Sagebrush Ecosystems FY2013Shrub-dominated ecosystems of the Great Basin are being threatened by disturbances, typically wildfire followed by encroachment of invasive plants (e.g., cheat grass). To mitigate these threats and future changes in the climate to big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata), restorationists require a knowledge base and tools to inform them of the most appropriate seed sources to plant to greatly enhance the success of restoration under contemporary and future climates. We propose to develop climate-responsive seed transfer zones based on associating plant quantitative traits and ecophysiological data from common gardens to the climate of the seed source. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, 2014, 2015, Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, All tags... California, California, California, California, California, Conservation Design, Conservation Design, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Decision Support, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Methodology/Protocol, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Project, Publication, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, big sagebrush, big sagebrush, climate change, climate change, climate change, climate change, climate change, completed, Fewer tags Climate impacts on streamflows, thermal regimes, and the changing distribution of trout in the Great Basin FY2011Thousands of data points have been collected by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and Nevada Division of Wildlife from the 1950s to the present describing the distribution of declining native redband and endangered Lahontan cutthroat trout, and the invasive, nonnative brown and brook trout. USGS analyzed this data to understand the climate-related changes to species distributions and model extinction risk. The results, submittedfor publication, will be used by the State of Oregon as it drafts conservation plans for redband trout and by the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection in drafting water quality criteria to protect and monitor the states coldwater fisheries. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, California, California, California, California, All tags... Data Acquisition and Development, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, State agencies, climate change, climate change, climate change, climate change, coldwater, coldwater, coldwater, coldwater, completed, habitat, habitat, habitat, habitat, hydrographic great basin, hydrographic great basin, hydrographic great basin, hydrographic great basin, lahontan, lahontan, lahontan, lahontan, nonnative species, nonnative species, nonnative species, nonnative species, redband, redband, redband, redband, streamflow, streamflow, streamflow, streamflow, thermal regime, thermal regime, thermal regime, thermal regime, trout, Fewer tags Understanding Effects of Juniper Removal in Support of Greater Sage-grouse on Sagebrush Steppe Bird and Small Mammal Communities at Multiple Spatial Scales FY2015Study the wildlife impacts of the Bruneau-Owyhee Sage-grouse Habitat (BOSH) project. (The removal of approximately 600,000 acres of western juniper across a landscape of ~1.5 million acres over the next generation in an attempt to reverse sage-grouse habitat loss caused by woodland encroachment.) Monitor the effects of the BOSH project on wildlife by understanding effects of habitat treatments conducted in support of greater sage-grouse on other wildlife critical to inform federal management plans. Collect and analyze data on wildlife and habitat responses at multiple control levels and in predetermined areas. Methods are described in the full proposal submitted and collection of data will occur for at least... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation Design, Conservation Planning, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, All tags... Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, ID1, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Monitoring, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Presentation, Project, Publication, Report, State agencies, aquatic, badgers, badgers, badgers, conifer, conifer, conifer, conservation, framework, juniper, lentic, lotic, meadows, onGoing, predators, predators, predators, pygmy rabbits, pygmy rabbits, pygmy rabbits, ravens, ravens, ravens, resilience, restoration, restoration, restoration, riparian, species impacts, species impacts, species impacts, wetland, Fewer tags Quantifying vulnerability of quaking aspen woodlands and associate bird communities to global climate change in the northern Great Basin 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 1 2 »