b)
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.