‘‘Silver Sagebrush Community Associations in Southeastern Alberta, Canada’’: A Response
Abstract
Habitat, or resource selection, studies are a keystonediscipline in wildlife conservation and management.Historically, resource selection studies were completedat a single scale, usually the site level, because of a lack oflandscape-level data. With the advent of faster computers andgeographical information systems, analysis at more than onescale is possible and desirable (Manly et al. 2002). For greatersage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus ) in Alberta, Canada,the analysis of resource selection has been completed at the sitescale (Aldridge 2000; Aldridge and Brigham 2002). A lack ofspatial data, characterizing ecological sites or habitat types,impeded the analysis of resource selection by sage grouse at thelandscape level.