Past climate changes, population dynamics and the origin of Bison in Europe

Massilani, Diyendo; Guimarães, Sílvia; Brugal, Jean‐Philip; Andrew Bennett, E.; Tokarska, Małgorzata; Arbogast, Rose‐Marie; Baryshnikov, Gennady; Г. Боескоров, Г.; Castel, Jean‐Christophe; P. Davydov, S.; Madelaine, Stéphane; Putelat, Olivier; N. Spasskaya, N.; Uerpmann, Hans‐Peter; Grange, Thierry; Geigl, Eva-María

doi:10.1186/s12915-016-0317-7

Public

Past climate changes, population dynamics and the origin of Bison in Europe

Published in BMC Biology • Oct 21, 2016

Authors:

Diyendo Massilani

Sílvia Guimarães

Jean‐Philip Brugal

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Climatic and environmental fluctuations as well as anthropogenic pressure have led to the extinction of much of Europe's megafauna. The European bison or wisent (Bison bonasus), one of the last wild European large mammals, narrowly escaped extinction at the onset of the 20th century owin...

Subject

Biology

Population

Dynamics (music)

Research Assistant

AI chat, annotations, notes & similar papers

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!