Wood Bison/Canadian Herds

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Banfield, A. W. F., & Novakowski, N. S. (1960) The survival of the wood bison (Bison bison athabascae Rhoads) in the Northwest Territories.Nat. Mus. Can. Nat. Hist. Papers 8:1-6.

Bayrock, L.A. and J.M. Hillerud. (1964) New data on Bison bison athabascae Rhoads. J. Mammal. 45:630-632.

Bergeson, D. (1992). A Comparative Assessment of Management Problems Associated with the Free Roaming Bison in Prince Albert National Park. Natural Resources Institute .Winnipeg, MB, University of Manitoba*: *144.

Bork, A. (1987) Genetic analysis of wood and plains bison by restriction fragment polymorphisms. pp. 47. IN: Proc. of North America Bison Workshop. (J. Malcom,ed.)

Bork, A.M., C.M. Strobeck, F.C. Yeh, R.J. Hudson, and R.K. Salmon. (1991) Genetic relationship of wood and plains bison based on restriction fragment length polymorphisms. Can. J. Zool. 69:43-48.

Campbell, C., I. D. Campbell, C. B. Blyth, and J. H. McAndrews. (1994) Bison extirpation may have caused aspen expansion in western Canada. Ecography 17(4): 360-362.

Carbyn, L. N., Lunn, and K. Timoney. (1998) Trends in the distribution and abundance of bison in Wood Buffalo National Park. Wildlife Society Bulletin 26(3): 463-470.

Carbyn, L.N., and T. Trottier (1987). Responses of Bison on Their Calving Grounds to Predation by Wolves in Wood Buffalo National Park. Canadian Journal of Zoology 65:2072-2078.

Choquette, L.P.E., E. Broughton, A.A. Currier, J.G. Cousinaeu and N.S. Novakowski (1972). Parasites and Disease of Bison in Canada. III. Anthrax Outbreaks in the Last Decade in Northern Canada and Control Measures. The Canadian Field-Naturalist 86:127-132.

Foster, J. E. (19920 The metis and the end of the plains buffalo in Alberta. In Buffalo. Edited by J. E. Foster, D. Harrison, and I. S. MacLaren. Edmonton, Alberta: University of Alberta Press. pp. 61-77.

Gainer, B. (1986) Age specific mortality associated with native hunting of bison. Alberta Nat. 16:136.

Gates, C., R. Stephenson, H. Reynolds, C. van Zyll de Jong, H. Schwantje, M. Hoefs, J. Nishi, N. Cool, J. Chisholm, A. James, and B. Koonz. (2001). National Recovery Plan for the Wood Bison (Bison bison athabascae). National Recovery Plan No. 21. Recovery of Nationally Endangered Wildlife (RENEW). Ottawa., Ontario.

Gates, C.C., J. Mitchell, J. Wierzchowski and L. Giles. (2001). A landscape evaluation of bison movements and distribution in Northern Canada. Axys Environmental Consulting Ltd., Calgary, Alberta. 113 pp.

Gates, C., T. Chowns, and H. Reynolds. (1992) Wood buffalo at the crossroads. In Buffalo. Edited by J. E. Foster, D. Harrison, and I. S. MacLaren. Edmonton, Alberta: University of Alberta Press. pp. 139-165.

Geist, V. (1991) Phantom subspecies: the wood bison Bison bison "athabascae" Rhoads 1897 is not a valid taxon, but an ecotype. Arctic 44:283-300.

Geist, V. and P. Karsten. (1977) The wood bison (Bison bison athabascae, Rhoads) in relation to hypotheses on the origin of the American bison (Bison bison; Linnaeus). Z Saugetierk. 42:119-127.

Haigh, J.C. and C.C. Gates (1995). Capture of Wood Bison (Bison bison athabascae) Using Carfentanil-Based Mixtures. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 31(1): 37-42.

Kelly, J. (2005). Communities for Conservation: Creating a framework for Plains Bison Conservation in Central Saskatchewan. Parks and Protected Areas: Dynamic Landscape or Museum? , Winnipeg, Manitoba, Health Leisure & Human Performance Research Institute, University of Manitoba.

Komers, PE; Messier, F; Gates, CC (1993) Group structure in wood bison: Nutritional and reproductive determinants. Canadian Journal of Zoology/Revue Canadienne de Zoologie [CAN. J. ZOOL./REV. CAN. ZOOL.]. Vol. 71, no. 7, pp. 1367-1371

Komers, PE; Messier, F; Gates, CC (1994) Plasticity of reproductive behaviour in wood bison bulls: When subadults are given a chance. Ethology Ecology & Evolution [ETHOL. ECOL. EVOL.]. Vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 313-330.

Komers, PE; Messier, F; Gates, CC (1992) Search or relax: the case of bachelor wood bison. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. Vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 192-203

Larter, Nicholas C. and C. Cormak Gates (1990). Home Ranges of Wood Bison in an Expanding Population. Soil Conservation Service, Billings Mt. Journal of Mammology, 71(4): 604-607.

Larter, Nicholas C. and C. Cormak Gates. (1991) Diet and habitat selection of wood bison in relation to seasonal changes in forage quantity and quality. CAN. J. ZOOL./J. CAN. ZOOL. Vol. 69, no. 10, pp. 2677-2685.

McCormack, Patricia A. (1992.) The political economy of bison management in Wood Buffalo National Park. Arctic. 45(4): 367-380.

Melton, D., N. Larter, C. Gates, and J. Virgl. (1989) The influence of rut and environmental factors on the behaviour of wood bison. Acta Theriologica 34(12): 179-193.

Meyer, Margaret E. and Mary Meagher (1995). Brucellosis in Free-Ranging Bison (Bison, bison ) in Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Wood Buffalo National Parks: A Review. School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis & National Biological Service, YNP. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 31(4): 579-598.

Mitchell, J. and C.C. Gates. 2002 Status of wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) in Alberta. Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, and Alberta Conservation Association, Wildlife Status Report No. 38, Edmonton, AB. 32pp.

Moodie, D.W. and Arthur J. Ray (1975). Buffalo Migrations in the Canadian Plains. Plains Anthropology, 21: 45-52.

Nudds, T. D. (1993) How many bison, Bison bison, should be in Wood Buffalo National Park? Canadian Field Naturalist 107(1): 117-119.

Polziehn, Renee O., Robin Beech, Jane Sheraton, and Curtis Strobeck (1996). Genetic Relationships Among North American Bison Populations. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 74: 738-749.

Reynolds, H. W.; Hansen, R. M.; Peden, D. G. (1978) Diets of the Slave River lowland bison herd, Northwest Territories, Canada. Journal of Wildlife Management. 42(3): 581-590.

Reynolds, H. (1982) An endangered species program brings wood bison to Nahanni. Zoonooz 55(7): 4-8.

Reynolds, H. W.; Hawley, A. W. L. (1987) Bison ecology in relation to agricultural development in the Slave River lowlands, Northwest Territories. Occassional Paper No. 63. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Wildlife Service. 74 p.

Soper, J. Dewey (1941). History, Range and Home Life of the Northern Bison. Ecological Monographs, 11(4): 348-412.

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.

Van Camp, J. (1989) A surviving herd of endangered wood bison at Hook Lake, N.W.T.? Arctic 42(4): 314-322.

Van Zyll de Jong (1986). A Systematic Study of Recent Bison, with Particular Consideration of the Wood Bison (Bison bison athabascae Rhoads 1898). Publications in Natural Sciences, No. 6. National Museums of Canada, Ottawa.

Wilson, G.A. and C. Strobeck (1998). "Microsatellite Analysis of Genetic Variation in Wood and Plain Bison." In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Bison Ecology and Management in North America, 180-91. June 4-7, 1997, Bozeman, MT.

G.A. Wilson and C. Strobeck (1999) Genetic variation within and relatedness among wood and plains bison populations.