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NW-Interior Nevada time series (2018-2068) of potential habitat and 50-year change Potential future greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) habitat restoration was projected (2018-2068) for three sage-grouse Priority Area for Conservation (PACs) populations located along the northwestern, central, and eastern edge of the Great Basin using outputs from a spatially explicit state-transition simulation model (STSM) developed for sagebrush ecosystems. These datasets, for the NW-Interior Nevada, USA (NWINV) sage-grouse population, include: 1) a set of 78 categorical raster layers illustrating a time series (decade intervals) of potential future habitat, and 2) a set of 15 uncategorized raster layers illustrating potential change in habitat classification across space, after simulating 50 years... Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Greater sage-grouse, NW-Interior Nevada Priority Area for Conservation, Nevada, Sagebrush biome, All tags... United States, biota, environment, perennial grass cover, post-fire restoration, sage-grouse habitat, sagebrush cover, sagebrush revegetation, state-and-transition simulation model, vegetation change, Fewer tags State-and-Transition Simulation Models, parameters, input data, and simulation results This is a spatially-explicit state-and-transition simulation model (STSM) of sagebrush-steppe vegetation dynamics for greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) Priority Areas for Conservation (PACs) in the Great Basin. The STSM was built using the ST-Sim platform and uses an integrated stock-flow submodel (STSM-SF) to simulate and track continuous vegetation component cover changes caused by annual growth, natural regeneration, and post-fire sagebrush seeding and planting restoration. Spatially explicit models were built for three sage-grouse PACs (Klamath Oregon/California [KLAM], NW Interior Nevada [NWINV], Strawberry Utah [STRAW]) that differed in historic wildfire patterns and the amounts of various component... Tags: California, Centrocercus urophasianus, Greater sage-grouse, Klamath OR/CA Priority Area for Conservation, NW Interior NV Priority Area for Conservation, All tags... Nevada, Oregon, Sagebrush biome, Simulation model, Strawberry Priority Area for Conservation, United States, Utah, annual grass cover, biota, environment, perennial grass cover, pinyon-juniper cover, post-fire restoration, sage-grouse habitat, sagebrush cover, sagebrush revegetation, state-and-transition simulation model, vegetation change, Fewer tags Hierarchically nested and biologically relevant monitoring frameworks for Greater Sage-grouse, 2019, Nevada and Wyoming, Interim We developed a hierarchical clustering approach that identifies biologically relevant landscape units that can 1) be used as a long-term population monitoring framework, 2) be repeated across the Greater sage-grouse range, 3) be used to track the outcomes of local and regional populations by comparing population changes across scales, and 4) be used to inform where to best spatially target studies that identify the processes and mechanisms causing population trends to change among spatial scales. The spatial variability in the amount and quality of habitat resources can affect local population success and result in different population growth rates among smaller clusters. Equally so, the spatial structure and ecological... Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Greater sage-grouse, Nevada, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, All tags... Wyoming, adaptive management, biota, boundaries, graph theory, habitat connectivity, hierarchical sampling units, population monitoring, Fewer tags Raster digital data sets identifying a range-wide network of priority areas for greater sage-grouse The delineation of priority areas in western North America for managing Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) represents a broad-scale experiment in conservation biology. The strategy of limiting spatial disturbance and focusing conservation actions within delineated areas may benefit the greatest proportion of Greater Sage-Grouse. However, land use under normal restrictions outside priority areas potentially limits dispersal and gene flow, which can isolate priority areas and lead to spatially disjunct populations. We used graph theory, representing priority areas as spatially distributed nodes interconnected by movement corridors, to understand the capacity of priority areas to function as connected... Types: Citation; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, All tags... Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biota, environment, geoscientificInformation, greater sage-grouse, habitat, habitat connectivity, habitat linkages, historic range, Fewer tags Columbia Basin Image of Sagebrush Types, Soil Regime Classes, and Fire Frequencies (1984-2013) This three-band, 30-m resolution raster contains sagebrush vegetation types, soil temperature/moisture regime classes, and large fire frequencies across greater sage-grouse population areas within the Columbia Basin sage-grouse management zone. Sagebrush vegetation types were defined by grouping together similar vegetation types from the LANDFIRE biophysical settings layer. Soil moisture and temperature regimes were from an USDA-NRCS analysis of soil types across the greater sage-grouse range. Fire frequencies were derived from fire severity rasters created by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program. The area of analysis included the greater sage-grouse populations areas within specific management zones.... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Columbia Basin, greater sage-grouse, soil-vegetation relationships, wildfires, wildland fires, All tags... wildlife conservation, Fewer tags Greater sage-grouse population structure (3: moderate-scaled, tier three) in the western United States This data, grsg_lcp_ThiessenPoly_mst3, is one of five hierarchical delineations of greater sage-grouse population structure. The data represent Thiessen polygons of graph constructs (least-cost path minimum spanning tree [LCP-MST]) that defined our population structure of sage-grouse breeding sites in the western United States. This data was developed by applying dispersal and genetic rules to decompose the fully connected population structure (graph) into the product presented here. Understanding wildlife population structure and connectivity can help managers identify conservation strategies, as structure can facilitate the study of population changes and habitat connectivity can provide information on dispersal... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, Centrocercus urophasianus, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, All tags... Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biota, centrality measures, connectivity (structural, functional, potential), greater sage-grouse, hierarchical population structure, least-cost paths, population structure, western United States, Fewer tags Northern Great Basin Image of Sagebrush Types, Soil Regime Classes, and Fire Frequencies (1984-2013) This three-band, 30-m resolution raster contains sagebrush vegetation types, soil temperature/moisture regime classes, and large fire frequencies across greater sage-grouse population areas within the Northern Great Basin sage-grouse management zone. Sagebrush vegetation types were defined by grouping together similar vegetation types from the LANDFIRE biophysical settings layer. Soil moisture and temperature regimes were from an USDA-NRCS analysis of soil types across the greater sage-grouse range. Fire frequencies were derived from fire severity rasters created by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program. The area of analysis included the greater sage-grouse populations areas within specific management zones.... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Northern Great Basin, greater sage-grouse, soil-vegetation relationships, wildfires, wildland fires, All tags... wildlife conservation, Fewer tags U.S. range-wide spatial prediction layers of lek persistence probabilities for greater sage-grouse This dataset contains two predictive lek (breeding site) persistence raster layers covering the U.S. greater sage-grouse distribution. In the United States, locations where males display and breed with females (i.e., leks) are often monitored annually by state wildlife agencies, providing valuable information on the persistence of birds in the surrounding areas. A U.S. range-wide lek database was recently compiled for greater sage-Grouse (O’Donnell et al. 2021), providing a standardized source of information to build statistical models to evaluate environmental characteristics associated with lek persistence. The compiled lek database classified a subset of leks as being either active (leks currently used for breeding... Tags: California, Colorado, Ecology, Idaho, Montana, All tags... Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Washington, Wildlife Biology, Wyoming, biota, greater sage-grouse, lek persistence, Fewer tags Greater sage-grouse closeness centrality of fully connected population structure in the western United States Closeness centrality (cc; grsg_lcp_closeness_centrality) measures the average length of the shortest path between the node and all other nodes in the graph. The more central a node, the closer it is to all other nodes and the more likely information/movements can flow to other nodes. Closeness is computed as one divided by the average path lengths from a node to its neighbors, which assumes that important nodes are close to other nodes. The data were defined from least-cost paths (LCPs) constructed into minimum spanning trees (MSTs). We identified a threshold of the cc normalized value (>0.047) where patterns of network connectivity occurred in our graph. The cc identified leks with the greatest number of shortest... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, Centrocercus urophasianus, Closeness, Colorado, Idaho, All tags... Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biota, centrality measures, connectivity (structural, functional, potential), greater sage-grouse, least-cost paths, population structure, western United States, 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 Strawberry Utah time series (2018-2068) of potential habitat and 50-year change Potential future greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) habitat restoration was projected (2018-2068) for three sage-grouse Priority Area for Conservation (PACs) populations located along the northwestern, central, and eastern edge of the Great Basin using outputs from a spatially explicit state-transition simulation model (STSM) developed for sagebrush ecosystems. These datasets, for the Strawberry Utah, USA (STRAW) sage-grouse population, include: 1) a set of 78 categorical raster layers illustrating a time series (decade intervals) of potential future habitat, and 2) a set of 15 uncategorized raster layers illustrating potential change in habitat classification across space, after simulating 50 years... Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Greater sage-grouse, Sagebrush biome, Strawberry Priority Area for Conservation, United States, All tags... Utah, biota, environment, perennial grass cover, post-fire restoration, sage-grouse habitat, sagebrush cover, sagebrush revegetation, state-and-transition simulation model, vegetation change, Fewer tags Greater sage-grouse betweenness centrality of fully connected population structure in the western United States The betweenness (bc; grsg_lcp_betweenness_centrality) defines the importance of a node in a graph based on how many times it occurs in the shortest path between all pairs of nodes. In other words, a node is important if it is included in many shortest paths between other nodes because it serves as a bridge between different parts of the graph. The data were defined from least-cost paths (LCPs) constructed into minimum spanning trees (MSTs). The bc identified major corridors spanning the sage-grouse range where nodes had a larger number of connections with other nodes, reflecting regions where leks potentially play larger roles of sage-grouse continuity based on graph theory analytics. We identified a threshold of... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Betweenness, California, Centrocercus urophasianus, Colorado, Idaho, All tags... Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biota, centrality measures, connectivity (structural, functional, potential), greater sage-grouse, least-cost paths, population structure, western United States, Fewer tags Greater sage-grouse population structure (4: coarsest-scaled, tier four) in the western United States This data, grsg_lcp_ThiessenPoly_mst4, is one of five hierarchical delineations of greater sage-grouse population structure. The data represent Thiessen polygons of graph constructs (least-cost path minimum spanning tree [LCP-MST]) that defined our population structure of sage-grouse breeding sites in the western United States. This data was developed by applying dispersal and genetic rules to decompose the fully connected population structure (graph) into the product presented here. Understanding wildlife population structure and connectivity can help managers identify conservation strategies, as structure can facilitate the study of population changes and habitat connectivity can provide information on dispersal... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, Centrocercus urophasianus, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, All tags... Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biota, centrality measures, connectivity (structural, functional, potential), greater sage-grouse, hierarchical population structure, least-cost paths, population structure, western United States, Fewer tags Table of Fire Frequencies among Sagebrush Types and Soil Regimes (1984-2013) This table summarizes land area occuring within unique combinations of sage-grouse management zones, sagebrush community types, soil temperature/moisture regimes, and times burned from 1984 to 2013. Methods used to derive these data are detailed in the report [Brooks, M.L., Matchett, J.R., Shinneman, D.J., and Coates, P.S., 2015, Fire patterns in the range of greater sage-grouse, 1984-2013; Implications for conservation and management: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015-1167, 66 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151167] Categories: Data; Tags: Colorado Plateau, Columbia Basin, Great Basin, Great Plains, Northern Great Basin, All tags... Snake River Plain, Southern Great Basin, Wyoming Basin, greater sage-grouse, soil-vegetation relationships, wildfires, wildland fires, wildlife conservation, Fewer tags Wyoming Basin Image of Sagebrush Types, Soil Regime Classes, and Fire Frequencies (1984-2013) This three-band, 30-m resolution raster contains sagebrush vegetation types, soil temperature/moisture regime classes, and large fire frequencies across greater sage-grouse population areas within the Wyoming Basin sage-grouse management zone. Sagebrush vegetation types were defined by grouping together similar vegetation types from the LANDFIRE biophysical settings layer. Soil moisture and temperature regimes were from an USDA-NRCS analysis of soil types across the greater sage-grouse range. Fire frequencies were derived from fire severity rasters created by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program. The area of analysis included the greater sage-grouse populations areas within specific management zones. Methods... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Wyoming Basin, greater sage-grouse, soil-vegetation relationships, wildfires, wildland fires, All tags... wildlife conservation, Fewer tags Fire Patterns in the Range of the Greater Sage-Grouse, 1984–2013—Implications for Conservation and Management Fire ranks among the top three threats to the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) throughout its range, and among the top two threats in the western part of its range. The national research strategy for this species and the recent U.S. Department of the Interior Secretarial Order 3336 call for science-based threats assessment of fire to inform conservation planning and fire management efforts. The cornerstone of such assessments is a clear understanding of where fires are occurring and what aspects of fire regimes may be shifting outside of their historical range of variation. Analyses are stratified by major vegetation types and the seven greater sage-grouse management zones, delineated regionally as... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Columbia Basin, Columbia Basin, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), greater sage-grouse, greater sage-grouse, All tags... soil-vegetation relationships, soil-vegetation relationships, wildfires, wildfires, wildland fires, wildland fires, wildlife conservation, wildlife conservation, Fewer tags Ecological Minimums for Greater Sage-grouse across their Historic Range in Western North America We partitioned a Mahalanobis D2 model of sage-grouse habitat use into separate additive components each representing independent combinations of species-habitat relationships to identify and map range-wide ecological minimums for sage-grouse. We assumed the states delineations of priority areas capture higher quality habitat and larger numbers of sage-grouse populations across our study area. We randomly selected 1669 points from the priority areas and corresponding variables GIS datasets to calibrate models. We estimated distributions of our variables from 1000 iterative samples created by bootstrapping the calibration data. To better incorporate conditions in both large and small priority areas, we restricted... Types: Citation; Tags: Arizona, CRS, California, Colorado, Ecological Minimums, All tags... Greater sage-grouse, Habitat, Habitat Similarity Index, Habitat connectivity, Historic Range for greater sage-grouse, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, SageDAT-data, ScienceFramework, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biota, environment, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags Great Plains Image of Sagebrush Types, Soil Regime Classes, and Fire Frequencies (1984-2013) This three-band, 30-m resolution raster contains sagebrush vegetation types, soil temperature/moisture regime classes, and large fire frequencies across greater sage-grouse population areas within the Great Plains sage-grouse management zone. Sagebrush vegetation types were defined by grouping together similar vegetation types from the LANDFIRE biophysical settings layer. Soil moisture and temperature regimes were from an USDA-NRCS analysis of soil types across the greater sage-grouse range. Fire frequencies were derived from fire severity rasters created by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program. The area of analysis included the greater sage-grouse populations areas within specific management zones. Methods... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Great Plains, greater sage-grouse, soil-vegetation relationships, wildfires, wildland fires, All tags... wildlife conservation, Fewer tags Table of Fire Severity, Sagebrush Types, and Soil Regimes within Large Wildfires (1984-2013) This table summarizes areas of burn severity, sagebrush biophysical types, and soil temperature/moisture regimes within large wildfires from 1984 to 2013 occuring within greater sage-grouse population areas. Methods used to derive these data are detailed in the report [Brooks, M.L., Matchett, J.R., Shinneman, D.J., and Coates, P.S., 2015, Fire patterns in the range of greater sage-grouse, 1984-2013; Implications for conservation and management: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015-1167, 66 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151167] Categories: Data; Tags: Colorado Plateau, Columbia Basin, Great Basin, Great Plains, Northern Great Basin, All tags... Snake River Plain, Southern Great Basin, Wyoming Basin, greater sage-grouse, soil-vegetation relationships, wildfires, wildland fires, wildlife conservation, Fewer tags Southern Great Basin Image of Sagebrush Types, Soil Regime Classes, and Fire Frequencies (1984-2013) This three-band, 30-m resolution raster contains sagebrush vegetation types, soil temperature/moisture regime classes, and large fire frequencies across greater sage-grouse population areas within the Southern Great Basin sage-grouse management zone. Sagebrush vegetation types were defined by grouping together similar vegetation types from the LANDFIRE biophysical settings layer. Soil moisture and temperature regimes were from an USDA-NRCS analysis of soil types across the greater sage-grouse range. Fire frequencies were derived from fire severity rasters created by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program. The area of analysis included the greater sage-grouse populations areas within specific management zones.... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Southern Great Basin, greater sage-grouse, soil-vegetation relationships, wildfires, wildland fires, All tags... wildlife conservation, Fewer tags 1 2 »