Invasive Annual Grass (Fig. 9) - A Sagebrush Conservation Design to Proactively Restore America?s Sagebrush Biome [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service] {2020} Full Details

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Invasive Annual Grass (Fig. 9) - A Sagebrush Conservation Design to Proactively Restore America?s Sagebrush Biome [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service] {2020}

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File-based data for download:https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/6329f0f4d34e71c6d67b8f82Related report with figures: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20221081Location and extent of the invasive annual grass threat across the sagebrush biome in the United States for 2020. Blue areas (dark and light, representing core sagebrush areas [CSAs] and growth opportunity areas [GOAs], respectively) are locations of high sagebrush ecological integrity and could serve as anchor points in an overall biome-wide strategy. A separate, high-resolution portable document format (PDF) version of this map is available at https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20221081 so stakeholders can zoom in and see the results at much smaller scales. By zooming in, one can see better that invasive annual grass threats are occurring at the edges of CSAs and GOAs and are not well represented at a range-wide extent.Invasive annual grasses (for example, Bromus tectorum L. [cheatgrass] and Taeniatherum caput-medusae L. [medusahead]) have profound and well-documented effects on the ecological function of sagebrush plant communities including increased fire frequency and loss of native perennial species (Germino and others, 2016; Davies and others, 2021).

Creator:

Department of the Interior

Provider:

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Open Data

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Datasets and Web services

Resource Type:

Vector data

Temporal Coverage:

2020

Date Issued:

2022-09-20

Place:

United States

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United States Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. While the Service makes every reasonable effort to ensure the accuracy and completeness of data provided for distribution, it may not have the necessary accuracy or completeness required for every possible intended use. The Service recommends that data users consult the associated metadata record to understand the quality and possible limitations of the data. The Service creates metadata records in accordance with the standards endorsed by the Federal Geographic Data Committee. As a result of the above considerations, the Service gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of the data. It is the responsibility of the data user to use the data in a manner consistent with the limitations of geospatial data in general and these data in particular. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the Service, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made regarding the utility of the data on another system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This applies to the use of the data both alone and in aggregate with other data and information.

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Public

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Shapefile

Language:

English

Date Added:

2023-08-11