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Fire Response Effects, Biocrust, and Vascular Plant Abundance Following Wildfire near Boise, Idaho (October 2021) Twenty quadrats within the burn perimeter of a September 2021 wildfire outside of Boise, Idaho were surveyed for the abundance of fire effects, biocrusts and vascular plants immediately post-fire. The fire was too small to be named. Char was measured as a proxy for fire intensity. Biocrusts were surveyed by morphogroup (crustose lichens, cup lichens, fruticose lichens, gelatinous lichens, short moss, tall moss) and vascular plants were surveyed by functional group (annual forbs, perennial grasses). Char was measured ocularly and biocrust/plant abundance was measured via point-vertex intercept at 40 points per quadrat. These data support the following publication: Condon, L.A., Shinneman, D.J., Rosentreter, R. and... Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Great Basin, Idaho, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, All tags... botany, community ecology, environment, fires, lichens, mosses, vascular plants, Fewer tags Greater Sage-Grouse Habitat Selection, Survival, Abundance, and Space-Use in the Bi-State Distinct Population Segment of California and Nevada Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereinafter sage-grouse) is a sagebrush obligate species and widely considered an indicator species for sagebrush ecosystems and other sagebrush-dependent species (Hanser and Knick, 2011; Prochazka and others, 2023). Sagebrush ecosystems are threatened by a wide range of disturbances and anthropogenic factors, including climate change, severe drought, altered wildfire regimes, expansion of invasive species, and anthropogenic development. Collectively, these threats have led to reduced ecological integrity and sage-grouse habitat quality within the sagebrush biome (Doherty and others, 2022). Steady and long-term declines in sage-grouse populations have led to large-scale... Tags: Bi-State, California, Ecology, Land Use Change, Nevada, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, animal behavior, biota, demographic response, ecology, greater sage-grouse, habitat selection, life stages, native species, reproduction, shrubland ecosystems, survival, Fewer tags Data for: A conservation planning tool for greater sage-grouse using indices of species distribution, resilience, and resistance Managers require quantitative yet tractable tools that can identify areas for restoration yielding effective benefits for targeted wildlife species and the ecosystems they inhabit. A spatially explicit conservation planning tool that guides effective sagebrush restoration for sage-grouse can be made more effective by integrating baseline maps describing existing (pre-restoration) habitat suitability, and the distribution and abundance of breeding sage-grouse. Accordingly, we provide two rasters. The first is a floating point raster file informed by lek data, and derived from: 1) utilization distributions weighted by lek attendance, and 2) a non-linear probability of space-use relative to distance to lek. The second... Tags: Bi-State, California, Conservation Planning Tool, Nevada, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... biota, environment, greater sage-grouse, Fewer tags Fuel Break Treatments in the Sagebrush Biome of the Western United States, 1953 - 2018 To better inform fuel break planning and assessment, we developed a comprehensive spatial database of known existing fuel breaks from 1953 to 2018 throughout the western United States. Each fuel break is represented as a polygon in the database and is attributed with the date of installation, the treatment type employed, and the data source. The availability of these data promotes the development of a monitoring framework to track the maintenance and longevity of different treatment types, as well as record the use, conditions, and outcomes of suppression activities at specific fuel break locations. The data also facilitate the quantification of important temporally varying qualities that may influence suppression,... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Ecology, Great Basin, Land Use Change, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, All tags... ecology, fires, fuel breaks, fuels, habitat alteration and disturbance, human impacts, invasive annual grass, invasive species, land use change, sagebrush ecosystems, shrubland ecosystems, western United States, wildfire, wildfire suppression, Fewer tags Greater sage-grouse habitat suitability 15-years post simulated fire event and sagebrush transplanting (2015-2030) To assess the degree to which transplanting sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) could quickly restore former sage-grouse habitat and the strategies by which greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter, sage-grouse) habitat restoration is best accomplished, we linked vegetation transitions with habitat selection models to evaluate habitat recovery. Within our modeling extent (Tuscarora, Nevada), we simulated the fire-induced loss of habitat, planting of sagebrush seedlings, and the regrowth of sagebrush and other vegetation over 15 years. We used sagebrush growth equations and vegetation state transitions to return and grow vegetation within the burned and planted areas. Every year, we updated seasonal sage-grouse... Tags: Fire, Greater sage-grouse, Habitat selection, NV, Nevada, All tags... Planting design, Sagebrush, State-and-transition model, Transplant, Tuscarora, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Vegetation restoration, Vegetation transition, biota, environment, Fewer tags Spatially Explicit Modeling of Annual and Seasonal Habitat for Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Nevada and Northeastern California - an Updated Decision-Support Tool for Management Successful adaptive management hinges largely upon integrating new and improved sources of information as they become available. Updating management tools for greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus, hereafter referred to as “sage-grouse”) populations, which are indicators for the large-scale health of sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the Great Basin of North America, provide a timely example for this tenet. Recently developed spatially-explicit habitat maps derived from empirical data played a key role in the conservation of this species facing listing under the Endangered Species Act. Herein, this report provides an updated process for mapping relative habitat suitability and management categories... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Great Basin, Greater Sage-Grouse, Habitat, Nevada, North America, All tags... Sagebrush Ecosystem Council, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, biota, boundaries, environment, Fewer tags Morphogroups of Biocrusts Following Seasons of Grazing Near Boise, Idaho The data were collected at Morley Nelson, Birds of Prey National Conservation Area (NCA) where known grazing regimes, including the season of grazing, have been in practice for the last 30 years. Surveyed plots were placed to account for intensity of grazing and to avoid confounding disturbances. Data were collected on the morphogroups of biological soil crusts (biocrusts) found within the NCA, and include measurements on soils related to texture, carbon, nitrogen and the abundance of soil aggregating cyanobacteria in the soil. These data support the following publication: Condon, L.A., Rosentreter, R., Veblen, K.E. and Coates, P.S., 2024. Season of grazing interacts with soil texture, selecting for associations... Categories: Data; Tags: BLM AIM data, Birds of Prey National Conservation Area, Ecology, Great Basin, Idaho, All tags... National Canservation Lands, Rangeland Administration System, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biological soil crusts, biota, botany, community ecology, cyanobacteria, ecology, farming, lichens, mosses, sagebrush ecosystem, soil sciences, soil texture, vascular plants, Fewer tags Spatially Explicit Estimates of Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) Survival, Recruitment, and Rate of Population Change in Nevada, 2013-2021 These data are the results of a spatially interpolated integrated population model (SIIPM) fit to count and demographic data collected from populations of Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter, sage-grouse) located in Nevada, U.S.A. during 2013-2021. We used a novel framework, using integrated population models (IPMs), to express demographic relatedness among sampled and unsampled populations using geographic principles of spatial autocorrelation (Shepard, 1968; Tobler, 1970). Specifically, the framework pairs relatively inexpensive population count data with spatially interpolated demographic estimates. When conducted within a Bayesian framework, spatially interpolated demographic parameters... Tags: Ecology, Nevada, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, biota, All tags... long-term ecological monitoring, native species, wildlife, Fewer tags Communication Towers across the Greater Sage-Grouse Range We compiled and verified a dataset which represents a comprehensive inventory of communication tower infrastructure across the range of the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) from 1990 to 2023. Our dataset is an annual spatial time series product that allows users to visualize, assess, and analyze tower locations and duration (i.e., including date of construction through date of dismantlement) on western landscapes within the sagebrush ecosystem. Tower data were acquired from four publicly available infrastructure databases, data records were filtered to only include communication tower structures within the spatial extent of interest. Data records were then validated and checked for accuracy using... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, Colorado, Ecology, Idaho, Montana, All tags... Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Washington, Wildlife Biology, Wyoming, biota, human impacts, land use and land cover, land use change, Fewer tags Sagebrush recovery projections across the biome, 30 years after two seeding treatment applications, and associated model data (1986-2021) This data release contains a formatted dataset compiled from multiple databases on restoration treatments and environmental conditions from across the sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) biome. With these data, we modeled the influence of environmental conditions and restoration treatments on trends in sagebrush cover using generalized additive models. We then used these models to create maps of projected sagebrush cover 30 years following wildfire (no treatment, and aerial or drill seeding of sagebrush). We also provide maps for the probability of recovery after 30 years without treatment, with aerial seeding of sagebrush, or with drill seeding of sagebrush. Widespread degradation of ecosystem function and biodiversity... Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, California, Colorado, Ecology, Great Basin, All tags... Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Washington, Wyoming, biota, ecosystem resilience, fires, habitat alteration and disturbance, long-term ecological monitoring, plants (organisms), remediation, remote sensing, soil moisture, Fewer tags Trends and a Targeted Annual Warning System for Greater Sage-Grouse in the Western United States (ver. 3.0, February 2024) Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) are at the center of state and national land use policies largely because of their unique life-history traits as an ecological indicator for health of sagebrush ecosystems. These data represent an updated population trend analysis and Targeted Annual Warning System (TAWS) for state and federal land and wildlife managers to use best available science to help guide current management and conservation plans aimed at benefitting sage-grouse populations range-wide. This analysis relied on previously published population trend modeling methodology from Coates and others (2021, 2022) and includes population lek count data from 1960-2023. Bayesian state-space models estimated... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, All tags... North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Washington, Wyoming, adaptive management, biota, ecology, human impacts, long-term ecological monitoring, shrubland ecosystems, targeted monitoring, triggers, warning system, western United States, Fewer tags Rasters Representing Greater Sage-grouse Space Use, Habitat Selection, and Survival to Inform Habitat Management We expanded developed methodology to incorporate habitat selection and survival during reproductive life stages and specific seasons with updated greater sage-grouse location and known fate datasets. We included brood-rearing areas that are understood to be threatened and important for population persistence. We combined predictive habitat map surfaces for each life stage and season with updated information on current occupancy patterns to classify habitat based on its suitability and probability of occupancy. We performed additional steps to delineate example habitat management areas, specifically: (1) incorporated corridors connecting key nesting and brood-rearing habitat; (2) corrected outputs for pre-wildfire... Tags: California, Ecology, Geography, Great Basin, Nevada, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States of America, Wildlife Biology, biota, native species, shrubland ecosystems, wildlife, Fewer tags Greater Sage-Grouse Abundance in Sagebrush Focal Areas near Critical Mineral Resources We quantified the relative abundance of greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) populations within Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Sagebrush Focal Areas (SFAs). Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Ecology, Economic Geology, Idaho, Land Use Change, Mineral Resources, All tags... Montana, Nevada, Oregon, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Wildlife Biology, Wyoming, biota, environment, habitat alteration and disturbance, human impacts, land use change, long-term ecological monitoring, metallic mineral resources, mineral resources, native species, shrubland ecosystems, western United States, Fewer tags Data to Support Hierarchical Models and Decision Support Maps to Guide Management of Subsidized Avian Predator Densities We combined approximately 28,000 raven point count surveys with data from more than 900 sage-grouse nests between 2009 and 2019 within the Great Basin, USA. We modeled variation in raven density using a Bayesian hierarchical distance sampling approach with environmental covariates on detection and abundance. Concurrently, we modeled sage-grouse nest survival using a hierarchical frailty model as a function of raven density as well as other environmental covariates that influence risk of failure. Raven density commonly exceeded more than 0.5 ravens per square kilometer and increased at low relative elevations with prevalent anthropogenic development and/or agriculture. Reduced sage-grouse nest survival was strongly... Tags: Anthropogenic subsidies, California, Ecology, Great Basin, Idaho, All tags... Nevada, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), bi-state, biota, conservation planning, decision support, density surface model, distance sampling, ecology, human impacts, native species, nest survival, population decline, predation, predator-prey, sagebrush, species distribution, species of concern, wildlife, Fewer tags Rasters and Tables for Selection and Survival of Greater Sage-grouse Nests and Broods in the Bi-State Distinct Population Segment of California and Nevada We demonstrate a quantitative approach to differentiate source and sink habitats at large spatial scales using the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter, sage-grouse), an indicator species for sagebrush ecosystems, as a case-study. We evaluated both selection and survival across multiple reproductive life stages (nesting, brood-rearing) in the Bi-State Distinct Population Segment (DPS), a genetically distinct and geographically isolated population of sage-grouse on the southwestern edge of the species’ range. Our approach allowed us to identify both mismatches between selection and survival and trade-offs between life stages. These findings suggest competing resource demands across time, with... Tags: Bi-State, California, Ecology, Nevada, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Wildlife Biology, animal behavior, biota, demographic response, ecology, greater sage-grouse, habitat selection, life stages, native species, reproduction, shrubland ecosystems, source-sink, survival, Fewer tags