climate-change impacts on sagebrush habitat and west Nile virus transmission risk and conservation implications for greater sage-grouse
The expansion of West Nile virus and the loss of sagebrush habitat pose threats to greater sage-grouse over most of their range in North America, but the effects of climate change on these potential stressors in the future have not been considered.
Here, our goal is to estimate how climate change may affect the distribution of climatically appropriate habitats for sagebrush and the risk of West Nile virus transmission in the eastern part of the species' range.
In order to forecast future risks of West Nile virus transmission under plausible climate-change scenarios, we utilized a degree-day model and Maxent to model the current and future habitat that would support two main sagebrush species in the study region.
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