Landscape-Scale Approach to Quantifying Habitat Credits for A Greater Sage-grouse Habitat Conservation Bank
| Autor: | Chad W. LeBeau, Gregory D. Johnson, M. Dale Strickland, Michael S. Frank |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0106 biological sciences
education.field_of_study Resource (biology) Ecology business.industry Environmental resource management Population Habitat conservation Endangered species Management Monitoring Policy and Law 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences 010601 ecology Geography Habitat Scale (social sciences) Animal Science and Zoology Sage grouse business education Selection (genetic algorithm) Nature and Landscape Conservation |
| Zdroj: | Rangeland Ecology & Management. 71:149-158 |
| ISSN: | 1550-7424 |
| Popis: | The greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) is experiencing range-wide population declines and was previously classified as a candidate for protection under the Endangered Species Act. While policies regulating anthropogenic development are important in the conservation of greater sage-grouse, additional programs to conserve and enhance greater sage-grouse habitats are necessary to sustain populations. When impacts to habitat cannot be adequately avoided or minimized, conservation banking is a viable species conservation strategy. A key component to the development and monitoring of a conservation bank is the quantification of conservation value. We estimated seasonal resource selection functions to identify the relative probability of female greater sage-grouse habitat selection as a function of environmental and infrastructure covariates to identify habitat suitability categories and subsequent habitat conservation value across a landscape in central Wyoming to be used in a conservation bank. The methods we employed to develop habitat conservation value, together with the management and monitoring plan, provide a robust framework for accurately quantifying, monitoring, and managing the habitat value and therefore the number of habitat conservation credits for a greater sage-grouse bank. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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