Competition potential between sympatric woodland caribou and wood bison in southwestern Yukon, Canada

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Zoology
• Main Authors: Fischer, Lisa A, Gates, C Cormack
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2005
• Subjects: Animal Science and Zoology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Yukon; Canada; Aishihik; Aishihik Lake; Bison bison athabascae; caribou; Rangifer tarandus; Wood Bison; Beringia; Bison bison bison
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z05-117; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/z05-117

Wood bison (Bison bison athabascae Rhoads, 1898) were reintroduced to the Aishihik Lake area in the southwestern Yukon, where a population of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou (Gmelin, 1788)) existed. These species co-occurred in nearby Beringia over several hundred thousand years and in t...