Bison Habitat/Effects on Habitat

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Baumeister, T.R. (1998) "The Rocky Mountain Front: Home to Bison. A Case Study on the Coevolution of Bison and Fescue Prairie." In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Bison Ecology and Management in North America, 351-54. Bozeman, MT.

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Bjornlie, D.D. and R. A. Garrott (1998). "The Effects of Groomed Roads in the Behavior and Distribution of Bison (Bison, bison) in Yellowstone National Park." Annual Report. Montana State University, Bozeman.

Callenbach, Ernest (1995). Rangelands are Waiting for Bison. Defenders (winter 1995/96). From Bring Back th Buffalo! Island Press, Covelo, CA.

Cid, M. Silvia, Detling, James K., Whicker, April D. and Brizuela, Miguel A. 1991. Vegetational Responses of a Mixed-Grass Prairie Site Following Exclusion of Prairie Dogs and Bison. Journal of Range Management 44. pp. 100-105.

Cooper, S. (1974) Bison range Situation and Flooding in the Peace-Athabasca Delta. Parks Canada Report.

Coppedge, B. R., S. D. Fuhlendorf, D. M. Engle, and B. J. Carter. 1999. Grassland soil depressions: relict bison wallows or inherent landscape heterogeneity? American Midland Naturalist. 142: 382-392.

Coppedge, B. R. and J. H. Shaw. 1997. Effects of horning and rubbing behavior by bison (Bison bison) on woody vegetation in a tallgrass prairie landscape. American Midland Naturalist. 138(1): 189-196.

Coppock, D.L., J.E. Ellis, J.K. Detling and M.I. Dyer. (1983) Plant-Herbivore Interactions in a North American Mixed-Grass Prairie. Oecologia (Berlin) 56:10-15. Retrieved from "http://editthis.info/wildbison/Bison_Habitat/Effects_on_Habitat"

Crockett, J. S. 1997. Bison (Bison bison) fecal pats as a small-scale disturbance on tallgrass prairie. Thesis. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

Fahnestock, J.T., and A.K. Knapp. 1994. Plant responses to selective grazing by bison - interactions between light, herbivory and water stress. Vegetation. 115(2): 123-131.

Frank, D.A., and R.D. Evans. 1997. Effects of native grazers on grassland N cycling in Yellowstone National Park. Ecology 78(7):2238-2248.

Fritz, Ken M. and Walter K. Dodds, et al. (1999) "The Effects of Bison Crossings on the Macroinvertibrate Community in a Tallgrass Prairie Stream." American Midland Naturalist 141.2 :253-65.

Gibson, David J. (1989). Effects of Animal Disturbance on Tallgrass Prairie Vegetation. American Midland Naturalist, 121: 144-154.

Grimm, Rudolf L. (1939). Northern Yellowstone Winter Range Studies. Journal of Wildlife Management, 3(4): 295-306.

Ingham, R.E. and Detling, J.K. (1982). Plant-Herbivore Interactions in North America Mixed-Grass Prairie. IV. Effects of Grazing by Prairie dogs and Bison on Populations of Soil Nematodes. Oecologia 61. pp 307-313.

Kreuger, K. (1986). Interactions and activity patterns of bison and prairie dogs at Wind Cave National Park: Implications for managers. Conference on National Wilderness: Current Research. pp. 203-208.

Kreuger, K. (1985). Interactions and Activity, Patterns of Bison and Prairie Dogs at Wind Cave National Park. 17 p.

Krueger, Kirsten. 1984. An Experimental Analysis of Feeding Relationships among Bison, Pronghorn, and Prairie Dogs. 44+ p.

Krueger, Kirsten. 1986. Feeding Relationships among Bison, Pronghorn, and Prairie Dogs: An Experimental Analysis. Ecology 67. pp. 760-770.

Krueger, Kirsten. 1986. Interactions and Activity Patterns of Bison and Prairie Dogs at Wind Cave National Park: Implications for Managers. National Wilderness Research Conference. pp. 203-207.

Larter, N.C., A.R.E. Sinclair and C.C. Gates. 1994. The response of predators to an erupting bison, Bison bison athabascae, population. Can. Field-Nat. 108:318-327.

Larson, Floyd (1940). The Role of Bison in Maintaining the Short Grass Plains. Ecology, 21(2):113-121.

Maichak, E. J. 2002. Behavioral differences of bison (Bos bison bison) and effects of seasonal ambient temperature on a tallgrass prairie. Thesis. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

Mattson, David J. (1997). Use of Ungulates by Yellowstone Grizzly Bears, Ursus arctos. Biological Conservation , 81: 161-177.

Mattson, David J., Bonnie M. Blanchard, and Richard R. Knight (1991). Food Habits of Yellowstone Grizzly Bears. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 69:1619-1629.

Mattson, David J., Bonnie M. Blanchard, and Richard R. Knight (1992). Yellowstone Grizzly Bear Mortality, Human Habituation, and Whitebark Pine Seed Crops. Journal of Wildlife Management, 56(3):432-442.

Mattson, David J., Colin M. Gillin, Scott A. Benson, and Richard R. Knight (1991). Bear Feeding Activity at Alpine Insect Aggregation Sites in the Yellowstone Ecosystem. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 69:2430-2435. (page missing)

Mattson, David J. and Jeff Henry (1987). (Draft) Spring Grizzly Bear Use of Ungulate Carcasses in the Firehole River Drainage: Second Year Progress Report. Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (January 1987).

Meagher, Mary (1971). Snow as a Factor Influencing Bison Distribution and Numbers in Pelican Valley. Yellowstone National Park, National Park Service.

Meagher, Mary (1971). Winter Weather as a Population Regulating Influence on Free-Ranging Bison in Yellowstone National Park. Presented at American Association for the Advancement of Science Symposium on Research in National Parks (December 28, 1971).

Messier, F. 1989. Effects of bison population changes on wolf-prey dynamics in and around Wood Buffalo National Park. Pp. 229-262 in Northern Diseased Bison Environmental Assessment Panel: Compendium of government submissions and technical specialists reports in response to the Panel information requirements document. Federal Environmental Assessment Review Office, Ottawa, ON. 295 pp.

Noss, Reed F., Edward T, LaRoe III and J. Michael Scott (~1994?). Endangered Ecosystems of the United States: A Preliminary Assessment of Loss and Degradation. Biological Resources, USGS (accessed February 14, 2000).

Raup, H.M. 1933. Range conditions in the Wood Buffalo Park of western Canada with notes on the history of the wood bison. Spec. Pub. Am. Comm. for Int. Wildlife Prot. 1(2) 52 pp.

Raup, H. M. 1935. Botanical investigations in Wood Buffalo Park, Canada, Department of Mines and the National Museum of Canada, Bulletin No. 74.

Reynolds, H.W., G.M. Lynch and B.L. Lajeunesse. 1982. Range Assessment of the Hay-Zama Lakes Area, Alberta, as habitat for wood bison and a proposal for their re-introduction. Unpubl. rept. for Alberta Environmental Protection, Natural Resources Service, Edmonton, AB. 47 pp.

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Rosas, C. A., M. W. Palmer, D. M. Engle, and J. H. Shaw. in preparation. Seed dispersal by bison (Bison bison) in a tallgrass prairie. Rudd, Clayton G., editor (1985). Bison Lore. Special edition. Naturalist, 36(3).

Telfer, Edmond S. and John P. Kelsall (1979). Studies of Morphological Parameters of Affecting Ungulate Locomotion in Snow. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 57: 2153-2159.

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Turner, Monica G., Yegang Wu, Linda L. Wallace, William H. Romme, and Antoinette Brenkert (994). Simulating Weather Interactions Among Ungulates, Vegetation, and Fire in Northern Yellowstone Park. Ecological Applications, 4(3): 472-496.

Vinton, M. A., et al. 1993. Interactive effects of fire, bison (Bison bison) grazing and plant community composition in tallgrass prairie. Am. Midl. Nat. 129:10-18.

Wallace L.L., M.I. Dyer and J. Bell (1998). "Bison As Controllers Of Ecosystem Productivity and Stability." Abstract only. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Bison Ecology and Management in North America, abstract 147. June 4-7, 1997, Bozeman, MT.

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