Historic distribution and challenges to bison recovery in the northern Chihuahuan Desert

Conservation Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1487-1494

  List, Rurik ^a   Ceballos, Gerardo ^a   Curtin, Charles ^b   Gogan, Peter J P ^c   Pacheco, Jesús ^a   Truett, Joe ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b Arid Lands Project   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Turner Endangered Species Fund   (United States)

Author keywords

Arid grasslands; Bison bison; Chihuahuan Desert; Historic distribution; Large grazers

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HISTORY; LAND USE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PERSISTENCE; PLEISTOCENE; RANCHING; REINTRODUCTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; UNGULATE;

ANIMAL; BUFFALO; DEMOGRAPHY; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVOLUTION; MEXICO; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BISON; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; MEXICO; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES;

CHIHUAHUA; CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; BISON; BISON BISON;

EID: 37349047117     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00810.x     Document Type: Review

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