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Abstract
The Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment (WBEA) area in the western United States contains a number of important land cover types, including nearly one-fourth of the sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) in North America. Although relatively unappreciated until recent decades, the broad open landscapes dominated by sagebrush communities have received increasing attention for their ecological value and the resources that they contain (Knick and Connelly 2011). As many as 350 wildlife species depend on sagebrush ecosystems for all or part of their life requirements (Wisdom et al. 2005a). Within the WBEA, intact sagebrush landscapes provide an important stronghold for populations of greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), recently listed as a candidate species under the Endangered Species Act (U.S. Department of the Interior 2010). Numerous other plant and vertebrate species of state or national concern also occur within the WBEA study area (Ch. 2). Conserving sagebrush ecosystems is a major conservation challenge that will require an understanding not only of current trajectories and scales of habitat change due to natural and anthropogenic disturbances (Leu and Hanser 2011), but also the potential exacerbation of these trends from climate change (Wiens and Bachelet 2010, Miller et al. 2011).
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| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | Introduction: An ecoregional assessment of the Wyoming Basins |
| Chapter | Introduction |
| ISBN | 978-0-615-55530-0 |
| Year Published | 2011 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Allen Press |
| Publisher location | Lawrence, Kansas |
| Contributing office(s) | Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, Fort Collins Science Center |
| Description | 9 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Monograph |
| Larger Work Title | Sagebrush ecosystem conservation and management: Ecoregional assessment tools and models for the Wyoming Basins |
| First page | 1 |
| Last page | 9 |
| Public Comments | The U.S. Geological Survey has been given express permission by the publisher to provide full-text access online for this publication, and is posted with the express permission from the Publications Warehouse Guidance Subcommittee |
| Country | United States |
| State | Wyoming |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
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