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Figure 12. Marginal effects (partial dependence: PD) of average daily maximum temperature and topographic heterogeneity in a 400 m window on sage-grouse habitat selection during summer in a) Buckskin Valley, Utah and b) Steptoe Valley, Nevada.
COMPETING INTERESTS STATEMENT:
We declare no conflict of interest.
DATA ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT:
Data on sage-grouse locations are sensitive, concerning a threatened species, owned by state agencies, used through a memorandum of understanding, and cannot be provided here. Others interested in using those data may request them from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources with a Government Records Access and Management Act request and from Nevada using a Nevada Department of Wildlife public records request. The LANDFIRE data may be accessed through landfire.gov. Elevation data were sourced using the elevatr R package from https://registry.opendata.aws/terrain-tiles/.We downloaded LANDFIRE and elevation data over the spatial extent of our study areas with a 1-km buffer around each side.
AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS:
ATB led project development, contributed to sage-grouse capture, collected temperature data, and led data analysis and manuscript writing.
SNF acquired funding, contributed to project development, led sage-grouse capture, contributed to data analysis, and contributed significantly to manuscript writing and revising.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
We acknowledge our many partners and supporters through many years of research. This work would not have been possible without the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (UDWR), Utah State University (USU) Extension, S. J. Quinney College of Natural Resources (CNR) USU, Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW), U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and many research technicians and graduate students. Funding was provided by grants from NDOW and the BLM.