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{"title":"Impervious surface cover and number of restaurants shape diet variation in an urban carnivore","authors":"Tal Caspi,&nbsp;Monica G. Serrano,&nbsp;Stevi L. Vanderzwan,&nbsp;Janet Kessler,&nbsp;Christopher J. Schell,&nbsp;Benjamin N. Sacks","doi":"10.1002/ecs2.70152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70152","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the past decade, studies have demonstrated that urban and nonurban wildlife populations exhibit differences in foraging behavior and diet. However, little is known about how environmental heterogeneity shapes dietary variation of organisms within cities. We examined the vertebrate prey components of diets of coyotes (<i>Canis latrans</i>) in San Francisco to quantify territory- and individual-level dietary differences and determine how within-city variation in land cover and land use affects coyote diet. We genotyped fecal samples for individual coyote identification and used DNA metabarcoding to quantify diet composition and individual niche differentiation. The highest contributor to coyote diet overall was anthropogenic food followed by small mammals. The most frequently detected species were domestic chicken, pocket gopher (<i>Thomomys bottae</i>), domestic pig, and raccoon (<i>Procyon lotor</i>). Diet composition varied significantly across territories and among individuals, with territories explaining most of the variation. Within territories (i.e., family groups), the amount of dietary variation attributed to among-individual differences increased with green space and decreased with impervious surface cover. The quantity of anthropogenic food in scats also was positively correlated with impervious surface cover, suggesting that coyotes consumed more human food in more urbanized territories. The quantity of invasive, human-commensal rodents in the diet was positively correlated with the number of food services in a territory. Overall, our results revealed substantial intraspecific variation in coyote diet associated with urban landscape heterogeneity and point to a diversifying effect of urbanization on population diet.</p>","PeriodicalId":48930,"journal":{"name":"Ecosphere","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecs2.70152","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Life stage hypothesis modeling determines insect vulnerability during developmental life stages to climate extremes","authors":"J. Simone Durney,&nbsp;Diane M. Debinski,&nbsp;Stephen F. Matter","doi":"10.1002/ecs2.70147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70147","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Butterflies are important bioindicators that can be used to monitor the effects of climate change, particularly in montane environments. Changes in butterfly population size over time, reflective of indicator life stages, can signal changes that have occurred or are occurring in their environment indicating ecosystem health. From the perspective of understanding butterflies as bioindicators in these systems, it is essential to identify influential environmental variables at each life stage that have the greatest effect on population dynamics. Life stage hypothesis modeling was used to assess the effects of multiple temperature and precipitation metrics on the population growth rate of a <i>Parnassius clodius</i> butterfly population from 2009 to 2018. Extreme maximum temperatures during the larval-pupal life stages were identified to have a significant negative effect on population growth rate. We speculate that higher temperatures during the spring ephemeral host plant's flowering, and <i>P. clodius</i>' larval stage, may lead to earlier plant senescence and lower <i>P. clodius</i> growth. Because <i>Parnassius</i> butterflies are well studied from a global perspective, results may aid in understanding the potential indicator life stages of other insect species in montane environments to climatic changes. Findings from this study demonstrate the value in assessing a butterfly species' response to short-term weather variation or long-term climatic changes <i>at each life stage</i> in order to protect and conserve insects and their interactions with other organisms.</p>","PeriodicalId":48930,"journal":{"name":"Ecosphere","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecs2.70147","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mosquito-derived ingested DNA as a tool for monitoring terrestrial vertebrates within a peri-urban environment","authors":"Christine Chivas,&nbsp;Adam Stow,&nbsp;Andrew Harford,&nbsp;Thomas J. Mooney,&nbsp;David Loewensteiner,&nbsp;Kate Montgomery,&nbsp;Anthony Chariton","doi":"10.1002/ecs2.70163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70163","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Global biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate. Consequently, there is a pivotal need to determine the occurrences and distributions of threatened species. Monitoring and detection approaches are traditionally reliant on capture (traps and cameras), as well as observations. However, these approaches are time-consuming and skewed toward the detection of large and/or common species. Invertebrate ingested DNA (iDNA) is being increasingly used as a novel approach for indirectly monitoring terrestrial vertebrates via their DNA in invertebrates with hematophagous, coprophagous, or saprophagous feeding strategies. This study aimed to examine the vertebrate diversity which could be retrieved using mosquito-derived iDNA in a peri-urban setting. Furthermore, the study also examined the influence of a human blocking primer and the application of multiple primers on the detection of the targeted taxa. Sampling was performed in Sydney, Australia, in a peri-urban environment adjacent to both urbanized and protected environments. As a means of ensuring that sampling could be performed by nonscientists, domestically available light traps were used. In total, 118 mosquitoes were captured. DNA was extracted from individual mosquitoes and amplified using four different primers, targeting vertebrates, mammals, and birds, with and without a human blocking primer (except for the bird polymerase chain reactions). The overall diversity retrieved reveals a broad diversity of species with 10 avian taxa and six mammalian taxa, including both native and non-native species of varying body sizes and behavioral characteristics. Both the multi-locus approach and the use of a human blocking primer revealed additional diversity. The use of iDNA offers the potential as an important tool for local land managers and citizen science projects for the monitoring of vertebrates.</p>","PeriodicalId":48930,"journal":{"name":"Ecosphere","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecs2.70163","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nitrogen enrichment drives accelerative effect of soil heterogeneity on the flowering phenology of a dominant grass","authors":"Anna G. Krause,&nbsp;Ashley A. Wojciechowski,&nbsp;Sara G. Baer","doi":"10.1002/ecs2.70141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70141","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Plant phenology is affected by both abiotic conditions (i.e., temperature, nitrogen enrichment, and drought) and biotic conditions (i.e., species diversity). The degree of spatial heterogeneity in soil resources is known to influence community assembly and dynamics, but the relationship between resource heterogeneity and phenology or the potentially interactive effects of soil resources on phenology are less understood. We leveraged a tallgrass prairie restoration experiment that has manipulated soil nitrogen availability and soil depth over 20 years to test the effects of environmental heterogeneity, nutrient enrichment, and potentially interactive effects of global change drivers (nutrient enrichment and a drought manipulation) on the phenology of a highly dominant prairie grass (<i>Andropogon gerardii</i>). We recorded the timing of major developmental stages of <i>A. gerardii</i> in plots containing four soil heterogeneity treatments (control, soil depth heterogeneity, nutrient/depth heterogeneity, and nutrient/precipitation heterogeneity). We found that the boot, first spikelet, and emerged spikelet stages of <i>A. gerardii</i> occurred earlier in treatments with greater heterogeneity of soil nitrogen, and this effect was driven by the accelerative effect of nitrogen enrichment on phenology. Reduced precipitation increased the flowering length of <i>A. gerardii</i> but did not otherwise affect developmental phenology. There were no interactive effects among any soil resource treatments on phenology. These results advance our understanding of the relationship between plant phenology and global change drivers, which is important for understanding and predicting the timing of plant resource use and the provision of resources to higher trophic levels by plants under varying levels of resource availability.</p>","PeriodicalId":48930,"journal":{"name":"Ecosphere","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecs2.70141","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Environmental influences on chorusing patterns in an Australian tropical savanna frog community","authors":"Sheryn Brodie,&nbsp;Slade Allen-Ankins,&nbsp;Lin Schwarzkopf","doi":"10.1002/ecs2.70153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70153","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ecoacoustic methods provide opportunities for ecological studies of vocalizing species within the context of the natural habitats and communities in which they occur. Continuous acoustic monitoring of species assemblages can reveal patterns in breeding phenology, behavior, and interactions. We used long-duration false-color spectrograms derived from acoustic indices to detect the nightly chorusing of a community of anurans in a tropical savanna in north Queensland. We described the chorusing patterns of each species over two wet seasons at three breeding sites, and used conditional random forest analysis to investigate the influence of various environmental factors. Frogs in these habitats form multispecies aggregations at water bodies during breeding periods when males form large choruses to attract females. The chorusing patterns revealed the species have different breeding periods, which could be broadly categorized as explosive or prolonged. While rain events were often a trigger for the commencement of the breeding period, species responded differently to environmental conditions. Choruses of explosive breeding species occurred only on the night of, or night after, the first high rainfall event of the wet season. The prolonged breeding species showed idiosyncratic patterns of chorusing, which were generally consistent across sites. Fine-grained nightly data on patterns of chorusing and the relationship with environmental conditions allow us to understand the detectability of the presence, or absence, of the frog species in these habitats, and provide baseline data for monitoring and management programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":48930,"journal":{"name":"Ecosphere","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecs2.70153","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pseudogymnoascus destructans environmental reservoir decreases 11 years after an outbreak of white-nose syndrome","authors":"Karen J. Vanderwolf,&nbsp;Donald F. McAlpine,&nbsp;Caleb C. Ryan,&nbsp;Hugh G. Broders","doi":"10.1002/ecs2.70149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70149","url":null,"abstract":"<p>White-nose syndrome is a skin disease of bats caused by the fungus <i>Pseudogymnoascus destructans</i> (<i>Pd</i>). <i>Pd</i> has devastated populations of some bat species in North America, where environmental reservoirs of the fungus are considered a threat to the persistence of bat populations. However, long-term patterns of <i>Pd</i> environmental persistence in North American hibernacula are unknown. We swabbed hibernacula walls 11 years after the invasion of <i>Pd</i> into Maritime Canada in 2011. This is the first study to examine the persistence of <i>Pd</i> in North American hibernacula &gt;7 years after the first documentation of <i>Pd</i> at a site. The proportion of hibernacula wall swabs with viable <i>Pd</i> decreased over time, with 40.6% of wall swabs positive (<i>n</i> = 32) in 2012, 35.0% (<i>n</i> = 40) in 2015, and 1.7% (<i>n</i> = 120) in 2022. In early winter 2022, 41.18% (<i>n</i> = 17) of bats (<i>Myotis lucifugus</i>, <i>M. septentrionalis</i>, and <i>Perimyotis subflavus</i>) were <i>Pd</i>-positive compared to 6.67% (<i>n</i> = 15) in late winter, a low prevalence and the opposite pattern compared to the first 4 years after <i>Pd</i> invasion to sites. Our results suggest that <i>Pd</i> loads in the environment naturally decrease to low or undetectable levels over time in our study region. Since attempts to reduce environmental reservoirs have a high likelihood of negative nontarget effects on hibernacula ecosystems, and a low likelihood of completely eradicating <i>Pd</i>, actions to reduce environmental reservoirs in hibernacula should consider deprioritizing sites where <i>Pd</i> has been present &gt;10 years. We urge the collection of further data across hibernacula sites with varied geochemistry, microclimates, organic matter availability, timing of <i>Pd</i> arrival, and surviving bat colony sizes. This will allow a more comprehensive assessment of this strategy.</p>","PeriodicalId":48930,"journal":{"name":"Ecosphere","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecs2.70149","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Colorado Front Range grassland exhibits decreasing dominance of cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) over time","authors":"Janet S. Prevéy,&nbsp;Timothy R. Seastedt","doi":"10.1002/ecs2.70154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70154","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Causes, consequences, and potentials for recovery from invasions by the invasive annual grass, cheatgrass (<i>Bromus tectorum</i>), in western North America have been extensively documented. The vast majority of these studies have come from regions where yearly precipitation is dominated by “winter-wet” patterns, but this species has also demonstrated its ability to invade plant communities in “spring/summer-wet” areas as well. In grasslands of the Front Range of Colorado, a region experiencing a “spring/summer-wet” precipitation pattern, cheatgrass can exploit early-season soil moisture, but moderate rainfall continues into the growing season beyond the time of cheatgrass senescence. In this study, we measured how cheatgrass dominance changed over a 13-year interval in a disturbed meadow along the Front Range of Colorado with a “spring/summer-wet” precipitation pattern. Cheatgrass cover declined in absolute abundance by about 50% while total vegetation cover increased over this time period. The site was neither grazed nor burned during this interval. A “spring/summer-wet” precipitation pattern with high interannual variation in amounts occurred during the study, but no relationships between the seasonality or amounts of precipitation and the directional decline in cheatgrass abundance were observed. Rainout shelter manipulations showed that the seasonality of precipitation influenced cheatgrass abundance, with winter drought treatments reducing cheatgrass cover relative to plots that experienced summer drought treatments. The cheatgrass decline corresponded with a lesser decline in native grass cover and no change in native forb cover, while the abundance of non-native perennial grasses and forb species increased over the study interval. Although cheatgrass can invade communities across broad climatic gradients following disturbance, results from this study show that the persistence of cheatgrass within invaded areas may depend on the seasonality of precipitation and plant communities that vary across these gradients.</p>","PeriodicalId":48930,"journal":{"name":"Ecosphere","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecs2.70154","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143115283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Migration strategy and constraint in migration behavior vary among shorebird species with different life histories","authors":"Sarah J. Clements,&nbsp;Jason P. Loghry,&nbsp;Jennifer A. Linscott,&nbsp;Jorge Ruiz,&nbsp;Joe C. Gunn,&nbsp;Juan G. Navedo,&nbsp;Nathan R. Senner,&nbsp;Bart M. Ballard,&nbsp;Mitch D. Weegman","doi":"10.1002/ecs2.70161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70161","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Migration strategy is a key behavioral characteristic guiding how migratory species time their annual cycles and use habitat. Understanding variation in migration strategy within and among species and individuals can be useful for understanding how birds navigate energetic trade-offs and designing or modifying conservation plans meant to benefit multiple species and life histories. We compared migration strategies among three migratory shorebird species with variable life history traits and short, medium, and long migration distances, respectively: American avocets (<i>Recurvirostra americana</i>), black-bellied plovers (<i>Pluvialis squatarola</i>), and Hudsonian godwits (<i>Limosa haemastica</i>). Avocets (short distance) exhibited the most within-species variation in migration duration, proportion of migration time spent at stopovers, and stopover duration. Plovers (medium distance) and godwits (long distance) showed less variation in these metrics, but godwits showed the most variation in the number of stopovers used. There were significant differences among species in migration distance, number of stopovers used, proportion of time stopped over, departure and arrival dates, and migration duration, but not mean stopover duration. We also found that avocets spent more time stopped over relative to migration distance than plovers or godwits, indicating that avocets showed the most energy-minimizing strategy of the three species. Our findings set the stage for future work assessing the effects of climate change and land use on characteristics associated with different migration strategies for additional migratory species.</p>","PeriodicalId":48930,"journal":{"name":"Ecosphere","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecs2.70161","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143115279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Benthic marine invertebrate herbivores diversify their algal diets in winter","authors":"R. M. Yoshioka,&nbsp;A. W. E. Galloway,&nbsp;J. B. Schram,&nbsp;L. E. Bell,&nbsp;K. J. Kroeker","doi":"10.1002/ecs2.70135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70135","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Changes in the seasonal environment substantially influence organisms. Understanding how species respond to such changes, such as in their feeding interactions and physiology, is key to predicting their resilience to both seasonal and longer term climate changes. The Sitka Sound in Southeast Alaska, USA, is an attractive natural laboratory for studying change, as the marine environment experiences substantial seasonal fluctuations in parameters such as temperature, pH, and productivity between summer and winter. By sampling a suite of dominant macrophyte algae and their benthic herbivores in winter (January) and summer (July) 2019, we investigated how producers and their primary consumers may respond to seasonal change inferred through fatty acid trophic markers. We used a fatty acid logratio selection and analysis approach to ask the following: (1) Do fatty acid biomarkers for algae differ between seasons? (2) Do the same fatty acid biomarkers differ between seasons when applied to herbivores, with herbivore fatty acids tracking the presumed trophic resources? (3) Do fatty acid biomarkers for herbivores differ between seasons, when considered independently from algae? Comparing logratio sets selected each for the algae and the herbivore fatty acids, we found that algae fatty acids were different between our sampling seasons, but the algae-selected fatty acid logratios did not clearly separate most herbivores by season. In contrast, the herbivore-selected logratios strongly distinguished herbivore species between the January and June samplings. Further, dispersions of fatty acid logratios were greater within herbivore species in the winter than in the summer, potentially due to the utilization of more diverse resources when preferred algae are less abundant. In total, results suggest that herbivores are not simply tracking the seasonal fatty acid changes in the dominant algae as trophic resources; instead, herbivore fatty acid seasonal changes may occur largely through some other nonexclusive mechanisms, such as omnivory, reductions or shifts in dietary composition, and/or endogenous physiological responses. Thus, the benthic herbivores in our study appear not to be locked into their diets when faced with seasonal change and may use a range of strategies, including diet diversification, to cope with environmental variation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48930,"journal":{"name":"Ecosphere","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecs2.70135","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Resource selection and survival of plains sharp-tailed grouse at a wind energy facility","authors":"Carly S. Kelly,&nbsp;Chad W. LeBeau,&nbsp;Jeffrey L. Beck,&nbsp;Alex Solem,&nbsp;Hilary Morey,&nbsp;Kurt T. Smith","doi":"10.1002/ecs2.70164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70164","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As the demand for wind energy development increases across much of the Great Plains region, there is a need to understand how this type of energy generation may impact wildlife. Due to their extensive range across areas with high wind resources, plains sharp-tailed grouse (<i>Tympanuchus phasianellus jamesi</i><i>Tympanuchus phasianellus jamesi</i>) represent a valuable species to evaluate how selection and survival are associated with existing wind energy infrastructure. We used spatial and demographic data collected from radio-marked female sharp-tailed grouse to evaluate resource selection (nest, brood-rearing, and breeding season) and survival (nest and female) near existing wind energy infrastructure during the April to August breeding season over a 3-year period from 2020 to 2022 in northeastern South Dakota, USA. We monitored 119 GPS-marked females captured at eight leks over the study period. We did not find evidence that females selected nest sites in relation to wind energy infrastructure but found that females with broods and females during the breeding season (April–August) avoided areas near high densities of wind turbines within 1.0 and 5.0 km of their home range, respectively. We found consistent selection for lower lengths of transmission lines across all life stages at the home range scale. We did not detect an effect of wind energy infrastructure on nest or female survival. Based on the results of our study, limiting the siting (the process of selecting the optimal location for a project and the associated features) of wind turbines within 5.0 km of sharp-tailed grouse breeding habitat may represent an important siting tool to minimize avoidance of otherwise suitable habitats.</p>","PeriodicalId":48930,"journal":{"name":"Ecosphere","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecs2.70164","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}