Sentences with phrase «sagebrush steppe»

At the end of the Ice Age, forests and sagebrush steppe gave way to desert shrubland, but the flow of energy — from sunlight to foliage to herbivore and carnivore — remained more or less constant.

Chambers et al. (2007) predict that the high flammability of this winter annual weed will increase wildfire frequency and thereby transform large areas of sagebrush steppe from perennial shrub to annual grass dominance decreasing the land's forage utility.

«Increases in Common Raven distribution and abundance in the American west mirror declines in distribution and abundance of Greater Sage - Grouse, where energy transmission corridors and other land use changes have altered sagebrush steppe habitat,» said David Delehanty of ISU.

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Then, about 12,600 years ago, steppe plants like aromatic sagebrush appeared, followed soon after by animals such as woolly mammoth, bison, and jackrabbits.

The established umbrella reserve, a sagebrush - steppe ecosystem in Wyoming, protected 82 percent of the state's greater sage grouse population and 0 - 63 percent of the habitat of the background species studied.

Habitat Across its range the western harvest mouse inhabits sagebrush, steppe, and agricultural areas.