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Centrocercus urophasianus; conservation planning; elasticity; life table response experiment; population model; population stability; radio-telemetry; sage-grouse; vital rates
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Evaluating Vital Rate Contributions To Greater Sage-Grouse Population Dynamics To Inform Conservation, David K. Dahlgren
Evaluating Vital Rate Contributions To Greater Sage-Grouse Population Dynamics To Inform Conservation, David K. Dahlgren
Wildland Resources Faculty Publications
Species conservation efforts often use short-term studies that fail to identify the vital rates that contribute most to population growth. Although the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; sage-grouse) is a candidate for protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, and is sometimes referred to as an umbrella species in the sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) biome of western North America, the failure of proposed management strategies to focus on key vital rates that may contribute most to achieving population stability remains problematic for sustainable conservation. To address this dilemma, we performed both prospective and retrospective perturbation analyses of a life cycle model based …