European Bison The Nature Monograph /

• Main Authors: KrasiDska, MaBgorzata. (Author), KrasiDski, Zbigniew A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2013.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Veterinary medicine.; Animal ecology.; Conservation biology.; Zoology.; Wildlife management.; Life Sciences.; Animal Ecology.; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management.; Conservation Biology/Ecology.; Veterinary Medicine.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36555-3

The mighty and majestic European bison is the relictual embodiment of the wildness of prehistoric Europe. Tragically, the millennia since that time have seen so many species driven to extinction by human impacts, and the European bison has only narrowly avoided the same fate. Today, the species repr...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword.-�Acknowledgements.-�1. Introduction
• 2. Systematics, registration and nomenclature
• 3.�Morphology and longevity
• 4. Genetics.-�5. The original range of the species Bison bonasus (L.)
• 6.�The European bison and the aurochs on Polish territory
• 7.�The natural population of Lowland European bison in the BiaBowie|a� Forest
• 8.�The� restitution of the European bison in enclosures within the BiaBowie|a Forest.-�9. European bison in the BiaBowie|a Forest � a characterisation of the environment
• 10.�The restitution of a free-ranging� bison population in the BiaBowie|a Forest
• 11.�The rhythm to bison activity
• 12.�Reproduction
• 13.�Behaviour patterns
• 14.�Food and use of the environment.-�15. Social organisation of the population
• 16.�The spatial structure of populations
• 17.�Population management
• 18.�The significance of the BiaBowie|a bison for the preservation and recognition of the species Bison bonasus
• 19.�Threats to the species Bison bonasus
• 20.�Bison as protected animals
• 21.�Cooperation over the restitution of the European bison in the BiaBowie|a Forest
• 22.�The restitution of bison in captive breeding� in Poland
• 23.�Restitution of free-ranging populations around the world
• 24.�Hybrids between the European bison and domestic cattle
• 25.�American bison a close relative of European bison.�.