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We revised distribution maps of potential presettlement habitat and current populations for Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) and Gunnison Sage- Grouse (C. minimus) in North America. The revised map of potential presettlement habitat included some areas omitted from previously published maps such as the San Luis Valley of Colorado and Jackson area of Wyoming. Areas excluded from the revised maps were those dominated by barren, alpine, and forest habitats. The resulting presettlement distribution of potential habitat for Greater Sage-Grouse encompassed 1 200 483 km2, with the species' current range 668 412 km2. The distribution of potential Gunnison Sage-Grouse habitat encompassed 46 521 km2, with the current range 4787 km2. The dramatic differences between the potential presettlement and current distributions appear related to habitat alteration and degradation, including the adverse effects of cultivation, fragmentation, reduction of sagebrush and native herbaceous cover, development, introduction and expansion of invasive plant species, encroachment by trees, and issues related to livestock grazing.
Cataloging Information
- Agropyron spicatum
- Artemisia tridentata
- Atriplex
- Bouteloua
- Buchloe dactyloides
- Centrocercus urophasianus
- Colorado
- cover
- Dendragapus obscurus
- distribution
- Festuca
- fire dependent species
- fire frequency
- fire regimes
- fragmentation
- game birds
- GIS
- grasses
- grasslands
- grazing
- habitat conversion
- herbaceous vegetation
- Hilaria
- invasive species
- Juniperus
- Montana
- native species (plants)
- Nevada
- Oregon
- Pinus edulis
- Poa
- presettlement vegetation
- range management
- Stipa
- Tympanuchus phasianellus
- Utah
- vulnerable species or communities
- Washington
- wildlife habitat management
- Wyoming
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