This project employs stakeholder-driven scenarios identified in the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Genes by Environment: Modeling, Mechanisms, and Mapping (GEM3) program’s Owyhee...

The Southwestern North America megadrought is an extreme climate event. Artemisia tridentata (big sagebrush) is the dominant, keystone species of sagebrush- steppe ecosystems in arid and semi-arid habitats of western North America. I conducted a...

Anthropogenic forces of land use and land cover change have affected Columbian Sharp-tailed grouse habitats in southeastern Idaho over the past century, with the assumption that the decline in bird counts at lek sites relates to the increase and...

Despite growing interest in conservation and reestablishment of ecological connectivity, few studies have explored its context-specific social-ecological outcomes. In this study, we integrated two modeling approaches, mental modeling of...