Second chance for the plains bison

Freese, Curtis H.; Aune, Keith; Boyd, Delaney P.; Derr, James N.; Forrest, Steve; Gates, C. Cormack; Gogan, Peter J. P.; Grassel, Shaun M.; Halbert, Natalie D.; Kunkel, Kyran; Redford, Kent H.

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2006.11.019

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“…It inhabited woodlands and forest openings through much of the continental United States and southern Canada; however, their fossils have not been found in northern Canada or Alaska. Bison eventually became an important hunting resource for Indigenous North Americans (4) and remain an icon of the American plains (5).…”

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Fossil and genomic evidence constrains the timing of bison arrival in North America

Froese

Stiller

Heintzman

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The arrival of bison in North America marks one of the most successful large-mammal dispersals from Asia within the last million years, yet the timing and nature of this event remain poorly determined. Here, we used a combined paleontological and paleogenomic approach to provide a robust timeline for the entry and subsequent evolution of bison within North America. We characterized two fossil-rich localities in Canada’s Yukon and identified the oldest well-constrained bison fossil in North America, a 130,000-y-old steppe bison, Bison cf. priscus. We extracted and sequenced mitochondrial genomes from both this bison and from the remains of a recently discovered, ∼120,000-y-old giant long-horned bison, Bison latifrons, from Snowmass, Colorado. We analyzed these and 44 other bison mitogenomes with ages that span the Late Pleistocene, and identified two waves of bison dispersal into North America from Asia, the earliest of which occurred ∼195–135 thousand y ago and preceded the morphological diversification of North American bison, and the second of which occurred during the Late Pleistocene, ∼45–21 thousand y ago. This chronological arc establishes that bison first entered North America during the sea level lowstand accompanying marine isotope stage 6, rejecting earlier records of bison in North America. After their invasion, bison rapidly colonized North America during the last interglaciation, spreading from Alaska through continental North America; they have been continuously resident since then.

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Fossil and genomic evidence constrains the timing of bison arrival in North America

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Stiller

Heintzman

et al. 2017

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“…Prior to European settlement of North America, there were over 10 million American bison (Freese et al 2007). Ancestors of our modern bison arrived on the North American continent during the middle Pliestocene (300,000 to 130,000 years ago) and reached their maximum distribution 100,000 to 12,000 years ago (Potter et al 2010).…”

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ABS Working Paper 4 - Bison as keystone herbivores on the Great Plains: Can cattle serve as proxy for evolutionary grazing patterns?

Fuhlendorf

Allred

Hamilton

2010

American Bison Society Working Paper Series

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“…The DOI has made great efforts to restore bison to their native range and historic role in grassland systems through management of bison on NPS-, BLM-, and USFWS-managed lands, and in collaboration with tribal land managers. In Wind Cave and Badlands National Parks, bison management is part of the enabling legislation, and they frequently partner with the Oglala Sioux Parks and Recreation Authority (OSPRA) of the Pine Ridge Reservation and the ITBC to round up and provide surplus bison to tribes in order to facilitate bison restoration on tribal lands for conservation, economic development, and to maintain cultural values (Department of the Interior 2014; Freese et al 2007). Additionally, South Dakota is the top state in the United States for private-sector bison production markets (Department of the Interior 2014).Therefore, it is not surprising that among the land managers we interviewed on tribal and NPS lands, bison management was one of the most significant concerns that was discussed in the context of drought.…”

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Drought Risk and Adaptation in the Interior United States: Understanding the Importance of Local Context for Resource Management in Times of Drought*

McNeeley

Beeton

Ojima

2016

Weather, Climate, and Society

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Drought is a natural part of the historical climate variability in the northern Rocky Mountains and high plains region of the United States. However, recent drought impacts and climate change projections have increased the need for a systematized way to document and understand drought in a manner that is meaningful to public land and resource managers. The purpose of this exploratory study was to characterize the ways in which some federal and tribal natural resource managers experienced and dealt with drought on lands managed by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and tribes in two case site examples (northwest Colorado and southwest South Dakota) that have experienced high drought exposure in the last two decades. The authors employed a social-ecological system framework, whereby key informant interviews and local and regional drought indicator data were used characterize the social and ecological factors that contribute to drought vulnerability and the ways in which drought onset, persistence, severity, and recovery impact management. Results indicated that local differences in the timing, decisions, and specific management targets defined within the local social-ecological natural resource contexts are critical to understanding drought impacts, vulnerabilities, and responses. These findings suggest that manager-defined social-ecological contexts are critically important to understand how drought is experienced across the landscape and the indices that are needed to inform adaptation and response strategies.

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Second chance for the plains bison

Cited by 120 publications

References 33 publications

Fossil and genomic evidence constrains the timing of bison arrival in North America

Fossil and genomic evidence constrains the timing of bison arrival in North America

ABS Working Paper 4 - Bison as keystone herbivores on the Great Plains: Can cattle serve as proxy for evolutionary grazing patterns?

Drought Risk and Adaptation in the Interior United States: Understanding the Importance of Local Context for Resource Management in Times of Drought*

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