Spatially Explicit Modeling of Annual and Seasonal Habitat for Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Northeastern California
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Publication Date
2019-04-10
Start Date
1999-05-22
End Date
2013-10-31
Citation
Brussee, B.E., Coates, P.S., Ricca, M.A., Chenaille, M.P., 2019, Spatially explicit modeling of annual and seasonal habitat for greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in northeastern California: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P99E64Y4.
Summary
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. The spatial data provided herein represent a previously unmapped area of northeastern California spanning 1,169,765 hectares. We applied [...]
Summary
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. The spatial data provided herein represent a previously unmapped area of northeastern California spanning 1,169,765 hectares. We applied resource selection function parameters used previously in published maps of seasonal and annual habitat suitability and management areas for sage-grouse across combined population management units in Nevada and small portion of northeastern California as identified by the Nevada Department of Wildlife (Coates et al. 2016). These data can be mosaicked or merged by users within a geographic information system with previously published mapping products from Coates et al. (2016) to make a seamless product that extends across the extent of known sage-grouse range in northeastern California. Please refer to Coates et al. (2016) for further details on methodology.
Coates, P.S., Casazza, M.L., Brussee B.E., Ricca, M.A., Gustafson, K.B., Sanchez-Chopitea, E., Mauch, K., Niell, L., Gardner, S., Espinosa, S., and Delehanty, D.J., 2016, 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: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016-1080, 160 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161080.
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These data provide wildlife managers with an additional resource to aid in planning and management of greater sage-grouse populations in northeastern California.
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