Climate impacts moose, bison habits

  • Jeff Martin, Ph.D., drives through a bison herd with his FLIR camera recording temperature data. Photo by Jeff Martin/TAMU AgriLife
    Jeff Martin, Ph.D., drives through a bison herd with his FLIR camera recording temperature data. Photo by Jeff Martin/TAMU AgriLife
Big game are usually resilient and adaptive mammals, but increased warming in productive regions of Alaska and the Great Plains poses a threat to populations of moose and bison. This comes as no surprise to Jeff Martin, Ph.D., and Dan Thompson, Ph.D., both recent graduates from Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, who dedicated their doctoral research to examining the effects…

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