Habitat Categories for Greater Sage-grouse in Nevada and California (August 2014)
Dataset Identification:
Resource Abstract:
Sage-Grouse habitat areas divided into proposed management categories within Nevada and California project study boundaries.HABITAT
CATEGORY DETERMINATIONThe process for category determination was directed by the Nevada Sagebrush Ecosystem Technical team.
Sage-grouse habitat was determined from a statewide resource selection function model and first categorized into 4 classes:
high, moderate, low, and non-habitat. The standard deviations (SD) from a normal distribution of RSF values created from a
set of validation points (10% of the entire telemetry dataset) were used to categorize habitat quality classes. 1) High quality
habitat comprised pixels with RSF values < 0.5 SD.2) Moderate > 0.5 and < 1.0 SD. 3) Low < 1.0 . 4) Non-Habitat
> 1.5 SD. Coates, P.S., Casazza, M.L., Brussee, B.E., Ricca, M.A., Gustafson, K.B., Overton, C.T., Sanchez-Chopitea, E.,
Kroger, T., Mauch, K., Niell, L., Howe, K., Gardner, S., Espinosa, S., and Delehanty, D.J. 2014, Spatially explicit modeling
of greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) habitat in Nevada and northeastern California A decision-support tool for
management: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014-1163, 83 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141163. ISSN 2331-1258
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core areas of animal space use. Ecological Modelling 224: 48-53.NOTE: This file does not include habitat areas for the Bi-State
management area.
Citation
Title Habitat Categories for Greater Sage-grouse in Nevada and California (August 2014)
publication Date
2014-02-26
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U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Dixon Field Station
These data provide the Nevada Sagebrush Ecosystem Council, and other wildlife managers, with an additional resource to aid
in planning and management of greater sage-grouse populations.
Resource language:
eng; USA
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completed
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Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude
-121.549936143
eastBoundLongitude
-114.038120374
northBoundLatitude
41.997346396
southBoundLatitude
37.559186349
Temporal Extent
1999-05-22
2013-10-31
Additional information on resource:
Coates, P.S., Casazza, M.L., Brussee, B.E., Ricca, M.A., Gustafson, K.B., Overton, C.T., Sanchez-Chopitea, E., Kroger, T.,
Mauch, K., Niell, L., Howe, K., Gardner, S., Espinosa, S., and Delehanty, D.J. 2014, Spatially explicit modeling of greater
sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) habitat in Nevada and northeastern California A decision-support tool for management:
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014-1163, 83 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141163. ISSN 2331-1258 (online)
Credits:
U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Dixon Field Station, Dixon. CA. Nevada Sagebrush Ecosystem Program,
Carson City, NV.
point of contact
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pointOfContact
individual Name Peter Coates
organisation Name
U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center
position Name Research Wildlife Biologist
Contact information
Telephone
Voice (530) 669-5073
Fax (707) 678-5039
Address
800 Business Park Drive, Suite D, Dixon, CA, 95620
Country US
descriptor The process for category determination was directed by the Nevada Sagebrush Ecosystem Technical team. Sage-grouse habitat
was determined from a statewide resource selection function model and first categorized into 4 classes: high, moderate, low,
and non-habitat. The standard deviations (SD) from a normal distribution of RSF values created from a set of validation points
(10% of the entire telemetry dataset) were used to categorize habitat quality classes.
sequence Identifier
name Habitat
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33638722.3813
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descriptor Area in Acres.
sequence Identifier
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24812649.9826
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3979828.119
units
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88027429.2437908
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units
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descriptor Area of feature in internal units squared.
name Of Measure Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
evaluation Method Description
A formal accuracy assessment of the horizontal positional information in the data set has not been conducted.
AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy
name Of Measure Vertical Positional Accuracy Report
evaluation Method Description
A formal accuracy assessment of the vertical positional information in the data set has either not been conducted, or is not
applicable.
Completeness Commission
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Data set is considered complete for the information presented, as described in the abstract. Users are advised to read the
rest of the metadata record carefully for additional details.
Completeness Omission
evaluation Method Description
Data set is considered complete for the information presented, as described in the abstract. Users are advised to read the
rest of the metadata record carefully for additional details.
ConceptualConsistency
measure Description
No formal logical accuracy tests were conducted.
notes: This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard (version
FGDC-STD-001-1998) using the 2012-06-20T17:21:00 version of the FGDC RSE to ISO 19115-2 transform.
Metadata contact
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pointOfContact
individual Name K. Benjamin Gustafson
organisation Name
U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Dixon Field Station
position Name Geographer
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 530-669-5069
Fax 707-678-5039
Address
800 Business Park Drive, Suite D, Dixon, CA, 95620
Country US