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Estimated potential for sage-grouse movement Estimated potential for sage-grouse movement among sage-grouse leks (Circuitscape; McRae 2006). Rescaled HSI values were used as a measure of landscape resistance Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Connectivity, Data, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Environment and Conservation, Federal resource managers, All tags... Greater Sage-Grouse, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nevada, Oregon, Publication, SageDAT-data, State agencies, United States, Utah, Washington, completed, environment, raster digital data, Fewer tags Final Report: Contribution of Landscape Characteristics and Vegetation Shifts from Global Climate Change to Long-Term Viability of Greater Sage-grouse Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) is a candidate for listing under the Endangered Species Act because of population and habitat fragmentation coupled with inadequate regulatory mechanisms to control development in critical areas. In addition to the current threats to habitat, each 1 degree celsius increase due to climate change is expected to result in an additional 87,000 km2 of sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) that will be converted to unsuitable habitat for sage-grouse. Thus, the future distribution and composition of sagebrush landscapes is likely to differ greatly from today’s configuration. We conducted a large, multi-objective project to identify: (1) characteristics of habitats required by sage-grouse,... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Birds, Centrocercus urophasianus, Endangered Species Act, Grasslands and Plains, Greater Sage-Grouse, All tags... Landscapes, Northwest CASC, Wildlife and Plants, climate change, Fewer tags Range-wide patterns of greater sage-grouse persistence Aim: Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), a shrub-steppe obligate species of western North America, currently occupies only half its historical range. Here we examine how broad-scale, long-term trends in landscape condition have affected range contraction. Location: Sagebrush biome of the western USA. Methods: Logistic regression was used to assess persistence and extirpation of greater sage-grouse range based on landscape conditions measured by human population (density and population change), vegetation (percentage of sagebrush habitat), roads (density of and distance to roads), agriculture (cropland, farmland and cattle density), climate (number of severe and extreme droughts) and range periphery.... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Diversity and Distributions, distribution, extirpation, greater sage-grouse, All tags... persistence, range contraction, sagebrush, Fewer tags Summer Season Habitat Suitability Index raster dataset This raster represents a continuous surface of sage-grouse habitat suitability index (HSI) values for Nevada during summer, which is a surrogate for habitat conditions during the sage-grouse brood-rearing period. Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: California, Great Basin, Greater Sage-Grouse, Habitat, Nevada, All tags... North America, Sagebrush Ecosystem Council, United States, biota, boundaries, environment, Fewer tags Sage Grouse HSI (habitat similarity index) Habitat similarity index (HSI) values for greater sage-grouse across their western range. HSI values represent the relationship of environmental values at map locations to the multivariate model of minimum requirements for sage-grouse defined by land cover, anthropogenic variables, soil, topography, and climate. Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Data, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Data, Data.gov Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Ecological Minimums, Environment and Conservation, All tags... Federal resource managers, Greater Sage-Grouse, Habitat Similarity Index, LCC Network Science Catalog, Publication, SageDAT-data, State agencies, completed, environment, raster digital data, Fewer tags Conservation Assessment of Greater Sage-Grouse and Sagebrush Habitats Conclusions: Report identifies regional patterns of habitat disturbance, land use practices, and population trends relative to greater sage-grouse. In general, the most important landscape characteristics influencing sage-grouse populations are the proximity of leks (areas in which males perform to nesting habitat for and The report examined findings from studies that indicate several area and distance specific conservation thresholds for maintaining viable sage-grouse habitat. Thresholds/Learnings: Male sage-grouse prefer sod-forming grasses or bare ground for leks; female sage-grouse prefer dense sagebrush stands surrounding leks for nesting; gentle terrain characterized by <10% slope; <5% of existing sagebrush... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, Greater sage-grouse, Land use configuration, Landscape fragmentation, Montana, All tags... Natural cover amount, Natural cover heterogeneity, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and Saskatchewan, birds, breeding area, conectivity, conservation thresholds, disturbance, habitat fragmentation, habitat requirements, land use, leks, meso-regional, population trends, sagebrush steppe, Fewer tags Summer Season Habitat Categories Shapefile This shapefile represents habitat suitability categories (High, Moderate, Low, and Non-Habitat) derived from a composite, continuous surface of sage-grouse habitat suitability index (HSI) values for Nevada and northeastern California during summer¸ which is a surrogate for habitat conditions during the sage-grouse brood-rearing period. Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, Great Basin, Greater Sage-Grouse, Habitat, Nevada, All tags... North America, Sagebrush Ecosystem Council, United States, biota, boundaries, environment, Fewer tags Greater Sage-Grouse Population Response to Energy Development and Habitat Loss Modification of landscapes due to energy development may alter both habitat use and vital rates of sensitive wildlife species. Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in the Powder River Basin (PRB) of Wyoming and Montana, USA, have experienced rapid, widespread changes to their habitat due to recent coal-bed natural gas (CBNG) development. We analyzed lek-count, habitat, and infrastructure data to assess how CBNG development and other landscape features influenced trends in the numbers of male sage-grouse observed and persistence of leks in the PRB. From 2001 to 2005, the number of males observed on leks in CBNG fields declined more rapidly than leks outside of CBNG. Of leks active in 1997 or later, only... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Centrocerus urophasianus, Powder River Basin, The Journal of Wildlife Management, WLCI Related Publication, agriculture, All tags... coal-bed methane, coal-bed natural gas, energy development, greater sage-grouse, lek count, population, sagebrush, Fewer tags A Spatial Model to Prioritize Sagebrush Landscapes in the Intermountain West (U.S.A.) for Restoration The ecological integrity of Sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the Intermountain West (U.S.A.) has been diminished by synergistic relationships among human activities, spread of invasive plants, and altered disturbance regimes. An aggressive effort to restore Sagebrush habitats is necessary if we are to stabilize or improve current habitat trajectories and reverse declining population trends of dependent wildlife. Existing economic resources, technical impediments, and logistic difficulties limit our efforts to a fraction of the extensive area undergoing fragmentation, degradation, and loss. We prioritized landscapes for restoring Sagebrush habitats within the intermountain western region of the United States... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Artemisia, Cheatgrass, Greater Sage-Grouse, Intermountain West, Restoration Ecology, All tags... Sagebrush, WLCI Related Publication, spatial modeling, Fewer tags Spatial distribution of greater sage-grouse nests in relatively contiguous sagebrush habitats. Conclusions: The proportion of sage-grouse nests located within 3 vs 5 km suggested that a 5 km buffer around a lek encompassed the majority of nests. The results indicate that land managers should strive to maintain a 5 km buffer around known sage-grouse lek locations in order to ensure sage-grouse breeding success. Thresholds/Learnings: A 5000m buffer around sage-grouse leks encompassed the majority (64%) of sage-grouse nests. Synopsis: This study used radio-telemetry to determine nesting patterns of Greater Sage-Grouse relative to leks in a relatively contiguous sagebrush habitat in Wyoming. The proportion of nests located within 3 vs 5 km suggested that a 5 km buffer around a lek encompassed the majority of... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Greater sage-grouse, Natural cover amount, Wyoming, birds, connectivity, All tags... habitat suitability, sagebrush steppe, sub-regional, Fewer tags Spring Season Habitat Categories Shapefile This shapefile represents habitat suitability categories (High, Moderate, Low, and Non-Habitat) derived from a composite, continuous surface of sage-grouse habitat suitability index (HIS, created using ArcGIS 10.2.2) values for Nevada and northeastern California during spring, which is a surrogate for habitat conditions during the sage-grouse breeding and nesting period. Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, Great Basin, Greater Sage-Grouse, Habitat, Nevada, All tags... North America, Sagebrush Ecosystem Council, United States, biota, boundaries, environment, Fewer tags Composite Habitat Suitability Index raster dataset This raster represents a continuous surface of sage-grouse habitat suitability index (HSI) values for Nevada. HSIs were calculated for spring, summer, and winter sage-grouse seasons, and then multiplied together to create this composite dataset. Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: California, Great Basin, Greater Sage-Grouse, Habitat, Nevada, All tags... North America, Sagebrush Ecosystem Council, United States, biota, boundaries, environment, Fewer tags Linking occurrence and fitness to persistence: habitat-based approach for endangered greater sage-grouse. Detailed empirical models predicting both species occurrence and fitness across a landscape are necessary to understand processes related to population persistence. Failure to consider both occurrence and fitness may result in incorrect assessments of habitat importance leading to inappropriate management strategies. We took a two-stage approach to identifying critical nesting and brood-rearing habitat for the endangered Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Alberta at a landscape scale. First, we used logistic regression to develop spatial models predicting the relative probability of use (occurrence) for Sage-Grouse nests and broods. Secondly, we used Cox proportional hazards survival models to identify... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Alberta, Canada, Cox proportional hazard, Ecological Applications, Greater Sage-Grouse, All tags... WLCI Related Publication, centrocercus urophasianus, fitness, habitat, logistic regression, occurrence, persistence, population viability, sagebrush, Fewer tags Genetic recapture identifies long-distance breeding dispersal in Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) Dispersal can strongly influence the demographic and evolutionary trajectory of populations. For many species, little is known about dispersal, despite its importance to conservation. The Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) is a species of conservation concern that ranges across 11 western U.S. states and 2 Canadian provinces. To investigate dispersal patterns among spring breeding congregations, we examined a 21-locus microsatellite DNA dataset of 3,244 Greater Sage-Grouse sampled from 763 leks throughout Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota, USA, across 7 yr. We recaptured ~2% of individuals, documenting 41 instances of breeding dispersal, with 7 dispersal events of .50 km, including 1 of... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Centrocercus urophasianus, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Genetic recapture, All tags... Greater Sage-Grouse, LCC Network Science Catalog, Publication, State agencies, breeding dispersal, completed, environment, long-distance dispersal, mark–recapture, microsatellite, molecular genetics, philopatry, Fewer tags A blueprint for sage-grouse conservation and recovery Conclusions: The goal of the report is to set forth guidelines for increasing greater sage-grouse abundance by at least 33% by 2015, and overall distribution of greater sage-grouse by at least 20% by 2030. In summary, the guidelines presented include steps for improving vegetation management to 1) restore degraded habitat, followed by 2) steps to reduce habitat fragmentation. Thresholds/Learnings: Sage-grouse numbers on leks within 1600m of coal bed methane (CBM) compressor stations were lower than on leks unaffected b this disturbance. All drilling activities for gas and oil development should be prohibited within 5500m of active leks and their associated nesting areas. Leks are frequently abandoned once road use... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Greater sage-grouse, Land use configuration, Natural cover amount, Wyoming, Wyoming basin, All tags... birds, fragmentation, habitat suitability, regional, restoration guidelines, sagebrush steppe, Fewer tags Journal Article: Soil Temperature and Moisture Regimes across Sage-Grouse Range Emerging applications of ecosystem resilience and resistance concepts in sagebrush ecosystems allow managers to better predict and mitigate impacts of wildfire and invasive annual grasses. Soil temperature and moisture strongly influence the kind and amount of vegetation, and consequently, are closely tied to sagebrush ecosystem resilience and resistance (Chambers et al. 2014). Soil taxonomic temperature and moisture regimes can be used as indicators of resilience and resistance at landscape scales to depict environmental gradients in sagebrush ecosystems that range from cold/cool-moist sites to warm-dry sites. We aggregated soil survey spatial and tabular data to facilitate broad-scale analyses of resilience and... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: California, Colorado, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Greater sage-grouse, Greater sage-grouse, All tags... Idaho, Invasive, Invasive, LCC Network Science Catalog, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, Report, Sagebrush, Sagebrush, Sagebrush ecosystem, Sagebrush ecosystem, Soil, Soil, Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture, Soil Temperature and Moisture Regimes, Soil Temperature and Moisture Regimes, South Dakota, Temperature, Temperature, Utah, Washington, Washington, Wyoming, biota, cheatgrass, cheatgrass, completed, environment, geoscientificInformation, resilience, resilience, resistance, resistance, sagegrouse, sagegrouse, soil moisture, soil moisture, soil temperature, soil temperature, wildfire, wildfire, Fewer tags Composite Habitat Categories Shapefile This shapefile represents habitat suitability categories (High, Moderate, Low, and Non-Habitat) derived from a composite, continuous surface of sage-grouse habitat suitability index (HSI) values for Nevada and northeastern California formed from the multiplicative product of the spring, summer, and winter HSI surfaces. Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, Great Basin, Greater Sage-Grouse, Habitat, Nevada, All tags... North America, Sagebrush Ecosystem Council, United States, biota, boundaries, environment, Fewer tags Winter Season Habitat Suitability Index raster dataset This raster represents a continuous surface of sage-grouse habitat suitability index (HSI) values for Nevada during the winter season, and is a surrogate for habitat conditions during periods of cold and snow. Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: California, Great Basin, Greater Sage-Grouse, Habitat, Nevada, All tags... North America, Sagebrush Ecosystem Council, United States, biota, boundaries, environment, Fewer tags Landscape Influence on Gene Flow in Greater Sage-Grouse: Conservation Actions Through Cores and Corridors Habitat and population fragmentation were among the primary factors contributing to the recent U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision that listing greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus, hereafter sage-grouse) was warranted but currently precluded by higher priority actions. Increasingly, current management is focused on core or priority areas containing the highest densities of breeding birds with little regard to understanding connectivity within and among areas. The most fundamental objective of species conservation is to first identify and subsequently maintain a set of viable and connected populations. Therefore, if management emphasis on core areas is to be successful for long-term conservation, it... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Birds, Corridors, Grasslands and Plains, Greater Sage-Grouse, Landscapes, All tags... Northwest CASC, Wildlife and Plants, conservation, gene flow, landscape, Fewer tags Climate change and land management impact rangeland condition and sage-grouse habitat in southeastern Oregon Abstract (from http://www.aimspress.com/aimses/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?doi=10.3934/environsci.2015.2.203): Contemporary pressures on sagebrush steppe from climate change, exotic species, wildfire, and land use change threaten rangeland species such as the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). To effectively manage sagebrush steppe landscapes for long-term goals, managers need information about the potential impacts of climate change, disturbances, and management activities. We integrated information from a dynamic global vegetation model, a sage-grouse habitat climate envelope model, and a state-and-transition simulation model to project broad-scale vegetation dynamics and potential sage-grouse habitat... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Birds, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Fire, Forests, Grasslands and Plains, All tags... Landscapes, Northwest CASC, Wildlife and Plants, climate change, exotic grass, greater sage-grouse, landscape modeling, rangeland management, sagebrush steppe, western juniper, wildfire, Fewer tags