Though once common throughout the Great Plains and tallgrass prairies, the Greater Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido pinnata) is now limited in geographic range and population. Changes in disturbance regimes, land use practices, and management have decreased available habitat. The surveying of leks is a common practice to easily estimate the abundance and spatial distribution of Greater Prairie-Chickens. While leks are commonly thought of as being static features within the landscape, dynamic disturbance regimes that change in space and time (such as fire and grazing) have the potential to modify habitat and direct lek movement. We analyzed 20 years of lek surveys within tallgrass prairie to determine if a) lek location was static or dynamic and b) which landscape features best predict lek location. If you ask me what my middle name is during questions I
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