Range-wide patterns of greater sage-grouse persistence

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 983-994

  Aldridge, Cameron L ^a   Nielsen, Scott E ^b,f   Beyer, Hawthorne L ^b,g   Boyce, Mark S ^b   Connelly, John W ^c   Knick, Steven T ^d   Schroeder, Michael A ^e  

^a Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

^d FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

^f FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Centrocercus urophasianus; Distribution; Extirpation; Greater sage grouse; Persistence; Range contraction; Sagebrush

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CULTIVATION; DROUGHT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION; GAMEBIRD; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT QUALITY; HOMINID; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GROWTH; RANGE SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHRUB; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STEPPE;

NORTH AMERICA;

ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; BOS; BROMUS; BROMUS TECTORUM; CENTROCERCUS UROPHASIANUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 54049087778     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00502.x     Document Type: Article

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