Principal Investigators Jeanne C. Chambers, E. Durant McArthur, Steven B. Monson, Susan E. Meyer, Nancy L. Shaw, and Robin J. Tausch – USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station Robert R. Blank – USDA Agricultural Research Station Steve Bunting – University of Idaho Richard R. Miller – Oregon State University Mike Pellant – USDI Bureau of Land Management Bruce A. Roundy – Brigham Youn...

The combined impacts of woody plant encroachment and climate variability have the potential to alter water balance in many sagebrush steppe ecosystems Western USA, leading reduced availability these already water-scarce regions. This study compared water-balance characteristics two adjacent semiarid watersheds central Oregon, USA: one dominated by big western juniper. Precipitation, springflow,...

First posted February 14, 2023 For additional information, contact: Director, Colorado Water Science CenterU.S. Geological SurveyBox 25046, Mail Stop 415Denver, CO 80225(303) 236-4882 Loss and degradation of sagebrush rangelands due to an accelerated invasive annual grass-wildfire cycle other stressors are significant management, conservation, economic issues in the western United States. These...

A growing body of evidence suggests that resources invested in sexual signals and other reproductive traits often come at the expense of the ability to mount an immune response. Male sagebrush crickets, Cyphoderris strepitans, offer an unusual nuptial food gift to females during mating: females chew on the tips of males' fleshy hind wings and ingest hemolymph seeping from the wounds they inflic...