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Modeling Songbird Density-Habitat Relationships to Predict Population Responses to Environmental Change Within Pinyon-juniper and Sagebrush Ecosystems

As wildlife populations decline in the shifting landscapes of sagebrush and pinyon-juniper ecosystems, land managers face a tough challenge—how can conservation efforts for one habitat avoid harming another?
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Predicted 2020 densities for 11 songbird species across the western United States

Understanding how songbird populations respond to changing habitats is crucial for effective wildlife management—this study analyzes 13 years of data across the western U.S. to map and predict densities of 11 species, offering key insights for conservation efforts.
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Living on the edge: Predicting songbird response to management and environmental changes across an ecotone

This study models population trends and density-habitat relationships for multiple bird species in pinyon-juniper and sagebrush ecosystems to assess the effects of pinyon-juniper removal on target and non-target species, highlighting the need to consider non-target species’ responses before large-scale habitat interventions.
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Smoke: How new emissions data could enable more prescribed fire

Wildfires have become more severe and have burned larger swaths of the western United States and Canada in recent decades. The smoke from these wildfires contains hundreds of different gases and aerosols, which have significant negative impacts on air quality, climate, and public health
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Systematic Process for Determining Field-Sampling Effort Required to Know Vegetation Changes in Large, Disturbed Rangelands Where Management Treatments Have Been Applied

This article describes and evaluates a flexible, scalable process for determining the sampling effort needed to monitor how rangeland vegetation responds to post-fire restoration treatments, using a custom R script called “SampleRange.”
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Combining resilience and resistance with threat-based approaches for prioritizing management actions in sagebrush ecosystems

Conservation Planning, ecological integrity index, ecological resilience, prioritization, resistance to invasion, restoration sagebrush ecosystem.
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Post-Fire Field Guide: Create and Use Post-Fire Soil BurnSeverity Maps

Rocky Mountain Research StationScience You Can Use
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Model-assisted domain estimation of post fire tree regeneration in the western US using nearest neighbor techniques

This study introduces a model-assisted approach to enhance the accuracy of national forest inventories in estimating post fire tree regeneration across extensive areas.
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Fact Sheet: Public Experiences with Wildfire and Flooding: A Case Study of the 2019 Museum Fire Near Flagstaff, Arizona

The greater Flagstaff area in northern Arizona recently has experienced multiple wildfires resulting in postfire flooding. The 2019 Museum Fire provides a case study for better understanding how the cascading disturbances of wildfire and postfire flooding, which can be further compounded by adjacent disturbances like monsoon-related flooding, impact residents’ understandings and behaviors related to these…
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Local Experiences with the 2019 Museum Fire and Associated Flood Risk: A Survey of Flagstaff-Area Residents.

Communities across the western United States are growing increasingly familiar with the impacts of uncharacteristic wildfires and subsequent post-wildfire flooding. Recent notable fire and flood risk events in the Flagstaff, Arizona area offer a unique opportunity to understand how residents in affected communities experience these interconnected hazards and how it might influence future support for…
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Test Blog Grid

Modeling Songbird Density-Habitat Relationships to Predict Population Responses to Environmental Change Within Pinyon-juniper and Sagebrush Ecosystems

Predicted 2020 densities for 11 songbird species across the western United States

Living on the edge: Predicting songbird response to management and environmental changes across an ecotone

Smoke: How new emissions data could enable more prescribed fire

Systematic Process for Determining Field-Sampling Effort Required to Know Vegetation Changes in Large, Disturbed Rangelands Where Management Treatments Have Been Applied

Combining resilience and resistance with threat-based approaches for prioritizing management actions in sagebrush ecosystems

Post-Fire Field Guide: Create and Use Post-Fire Soil BurnSeverity Maps

Model-assisted domain estimation of post fire tree regeneration in the western US using nearest neighbor techniques

Fact Sheet: Public Experiences with Wildfire and Flooding: A Case Study of the 2019 Museum Fire Near Flagstaff, Arizona

Local Experiences with the 2019 Museum Fire and Associated Flood Risk: A Survey of Flagstaff-Area Residents.

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