9: "+" = " - " = "NC" = OR "+ / - " = Treatment Response Location Habitat Response Variable Methods Notes Citation Wildfire NC Northwestern Mountain big Density 5-minute point Widely Holmes and Great Basin sagebrush (individuals/km2) count surveys overlapping Robinson 2013 (NV) across burned confidence and unburned intervals for plots burned and unburned results inconclusive. - Wildfire Central OR Mountain big Bird density Compared Bird communities Reinkensmeyer et sagebrush (birds/ha/yr) vegetative observed across al. 2007 successional structure and bird landscape types, gradient communities impacts surmised among 4 from results. successional Strong preference states for shrub-steppe habitats and reduced density in post-burn grassland and mid-successional juniper. - Wildfire Southeastern OR Sagebrush Occurrence Fixed-radius Abundance and Noson et al. 2006 Steppe, point count occurrence mountain big positively sagebrush correlate with sagebrush cover; burned sites had low sagebrush cover compared to unburned. - Wildfire OR, ID, UT, Big sagebrush Bird counts Flushing bird No Sage 2002 WY, MT counts Thrashers found on burned sites, only unburned.
9: "+" = " - " = "NC" = "+ / - " = Treatment Response Location Habitat Response Variable Methods Notes Citation Wildfire NC Northwestern Great Basin (NV) Mountain big sagebrush Density (individuals/km2) 5-minute point count surveys across burned and unburned plots Widely overlapping confidence intervals for burned and unburned results inconclusive. Holmes and Robinson 2013 Wildfire - Central OR Mountain big sagebrush successional gradient Bird density (birds/ha/yr) Compared vegetative structure and bird communities among 4 successional states Bird communities observed across landscape types, impacts surmised from results. Strong preference for shrub-steppe habitats and reduced density in post-burn grassland and mid-successional juniper. Reinkensmeyer et al. 2007 Wildfire - Southeastern OR Sagebrush Steppe, mountain big sagebrush Occurrence Fixed-radius point count Abundance and occurrence positively correlate with sagebrush cover; burned sites had low sagebrush cover compared to unburned. Noson et al. 2006 Wildfire - OR, ID, UT, WY, MT Big sagebrush Bird counts Flushing bird counts No Sage Thrashers found on burned sites, only unburned. 2002 OR