Summary of Science, Activities, Programs, and Policies That Influence the Rangewide Conservation of Greater Sage-Grouse ('Centrocercus urophasianus').

摘要

The sagebrush biome, including sagebrush-steppe and Great Basin sagebrush communities, interspersed with grasslands, salt flats, badlands, mountain ranges, springs, intermittent creeks and washes, and major river systems, is one of the most widespread and enigmatic components of Western U.S. landscapes. One of its most charismatic species, the Greater Sage-Grouse, has been observed, hunted, and counted for decades. Habitat conversion, degradation, and fragmentation have accumulated across the entire range such that local conditions as well as habitat distributions at local and regional scales are negatively affecting the long-term persistence of this species.