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Utilizing hunter harvest effort to survey for wildlife disease: A case study of West Nile virus in greater sage‐grouse

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2014
Greater sage‐grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; sage‐grouse) are highly susceptible to infection with West Nile virus (WNV), with substantial mortality reported in wild populations and in experimentally infected birds.
Robert J. Dusek, Christian A. Hagen, J. Christian Franson, David A. Budeau, Erik K. Hofmeister   +4 more
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Integrating Ecosystem Resilience and Resistance Into Decision Support Tools for Multi-Scale Population Management of a Sagebrush Indicator Species

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Imperiled sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems of western North America are experiencing unprecedented conservation planning efforts. Advances in decision-support tools operationalize concepts of ecosystem resilience by quantitatively linking spatially ...
Mark A. Ricca, Peter S. Coates
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Genetic structuring and within‐flock relatedness of eastern wild turkeys

Wildlife Society Bulletin, Volume 49, Issue S1, December 2025.
We investigated the genetic structure and within‐flock relatedness of wild turkeys across sites in the southeastern United States. We found that the probability of within‐flock relatedness was lowest at a study site where spring harvest of males did not occur, and relatedness varied by sex and age relationships across study sites.
Sara A. Watkins, Erin E. Ulrey, Nicholas W. Bakner, Patrick H. Wightman, Bridgett M. VonHoldt, Bret A. Collier, Michael J. Chamberlain   +6 more
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The influence of a conservation‐based grazing program on greater sage‐grouse habitat selection

Conservation Science and Practice
Understanding how vegetation management affects animals' habitat selection patterns is critical for comprehensive conservation planning. As part of a decade‐long study (2011–2019) of 486 adult female sage‐grouse in central Montana, we investigated how a ...
Jennifer E. Helm, Elizabeth G. Simpson, Lorelle I. Berkeley, Mark Szczypinski, Shea P. Coons, Victoria J. Dreitz   +5 more
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Comparison of 2 vegetation height methods for assessing greater sage‐grouse seasonal habitat

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2018
The 2015 Sage‐Grouse Habitat Assessment Framework (HAF) was developed to evaluate habitat quality for sage‐grouse (Centrocercus spp.), with the greater sage‐grouse (C.
Sean Di Stefano, Jason W. Karl, Sarah E. Mccord, Nelson G. Stauffer, Paul D. Makela, Mary Manning   +5 more
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Use of LiDAR to examine habitat selection by incubating female wild turkeys in South Carolina

Wildlife Society Bulletin, Volume 49, Issue S1, December 2025.
We evaluated how spatially explicit LiDAR‐derived estimates of forest structure and topographical features influenced selection by female eastern wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) during the incubation period. Female wild turkeys selected for incubation recess locations in pine (Pinus spp.) forests with an average basal area of ~14m2/ha and
Erin E. Ulrey, Nicholas W. Bakner, James E. Garabedian, John C. Kilgo, Bret A. Collier, Michael J. Chamberlain   +5 more
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Using DNA from hairs left at depredated greater sage‐grouse nests to detect mammalian nest predators

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2018
Despite a multitude of studies on sage‐grouse (Centrocercus spp.), there is still sparse information on the predator communities that influence sage‐grouse productivity and how these predator communities may change when sagebrush habitats are altered by ...
Christopher P. Kirol, Kristine L. Pilgrim, Andrew L. Sutphin, Thomas L. Maechtle   +3 more
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Comparing nesting rate and space use between extant and translocated eastern wild turkeys

Wildlife Society Bulletin, Volume 49, Issue S1, December 2025.
Female wild turkeys that are translocated to a site without conspecifics already present have increased range sizes and lower nesting rates when compared to extant or females translocated with conspecifics already present. This means that translocations should either translocate wild turkeys to areas where wild turkeys are already present or focus on ...
Chad M. Argabright, Rusty L. Wood, Jason B. Hardin, Nicholas W. Bakner, Michael J. Chamberlain, Bret A. Collier   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anthropogenic and Natural Determinants of the Population of a Sensitive Species: Sage Grouse in Nevada [PDF]

This paper uses Nevada data to conduct regression analyses of the relationship between sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) population sizes and potential causal factors.
Alison Eagle, G. Cornelis van Kooten, Mark Eiswerth   +2 more
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Interannual breeding site fidelity in eastern wild turkey flocks

Wildlife Society Bulletin, Volume 49, Issue S1, December 2025.
Individual female wild turkeys tend to use the same breeding season space as other female wild turkeys that lived within 7.5 km, both in the same year and in different years. This means that landscape management for wild turkeys should take into account that conservation actions taken on a landscape could have multi‐generational impacts for wild ...
Chad M. Argabright, Cody Cedotal, Michael J. Chamberlain, Bret A. Collier   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source