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Regional Experiment to Evaluate Effects of Fire and Fire-Surrogate Treatments in the Sagebrush Biome: Bird Community Changes (JFS)
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The sagebrush biome occupies 100 million acres in the West and is the largest biome in North America. Perhaps a third of the biome has been lost due to expansion of exotic weeds such as cheatgrass and the encroachment of native conifers like juniper. These changes have significantly altered fire regimes and have affected habitats and populations of greater sage-grouse. This research project provides managers with information that will help them predict the extent to which fire and other treatments that mimic fire influence bird community structure in sagebrush steppe systems. For bird communities, the changes in habitat as a result of treatments may help determine how species dependent on these habitats thrive or perish.
Knick, Steven T. - Supervisory Research Ecologist
Phone: 208-426-5208
Email: steve_knick@usgs.gov
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