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Taking stock of bison sustainability Researchers: Facing similar issues to cattle, changes pose a threat on the Plains By South Dakota Farm and Ranch BROOKINGS — Accelerating climate change throughout the Great Plains may present the next major challenge to bison sustainability. That is the main point the director of research for the Center of Excellence for Bison Studies at South Dakota State University, Jeff Martin, made in his article recently published in the People and Nature journal, titled “Vulnerability assessment of the multi-sector North American bison management system to climate change.” The article, published in April, was a collaboration with researchers from Texas A&M University and Colorado State University. “Climate change directly affects bison by increasing thermal stress and decreasing forage and water availability, issues that also challenge range beef cattle,” Martin said. “Indirect consequences of climate change include increasing distribution and intensity of parasites and several diseases that are known to reduce reproductive success. These stresses have been estimated to collectively reduce
bison body size by 50% if global temperature warms by 4° Celsius near the end of the 21st century.” Furthermore, warming and drought may also result in declining productivity of the remaining grasslands of the Great Plains, which are the preferred habitat for both bison and cattle. “Currently, 90% of grasslands and 85% of bison are privately owned, which justifies the need for robust private land conservation strategies to maintain this iconic species and its grassland habitats,” Martin said. The current bison population of North America is approximately 400,000 animals and is maintained by a self-assembled bison management system (BMS). Publicly owned bison populations have remained static around 30,000 bison since the 1930s because the extent of public lands has not expanded, especially not in the Great Plains. Martin and his team coined the term ‘bison management system’ as a way to describe the whole system of bison managers that represent a multi-sector interest in the conservation and production of bison across private, public, Tribal
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People enjoying bison at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota.
