Flood-irrigated agriculture mediates climate-induced wetland scarcity for summering sandhill cranes in western North America
John Donnelly, Daniel P. Collins, Jeffrey M. Knetter, James H. Gammonley, Matthew A. Boggie, Blake A. Grisham, M. Cathy Nowak, David E. Naugle
The paper uses GPS data and machine learning to model the summering range of sandhill cranes, showing flood-irrigated agriculture and wetlands are critical for their distribution despite covering only 1.2% of the landscape.
Ecology and Evolution · Mar 1, 2024Peer-reviewedSystems Biology