By: Old Bones, New Conservation Tool « The Olive Tree

Old Bones, New Conservation Tool « The Olive Tree — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:46:11 +0000

[...] Lester, Liza. (10 December 2012). Elk bones tell stories of life, death, and habitat use at Yellowst… Miller, J. H. 2011. Ghosts of Yellowstone: multi-decadal histories of wildlife populations captured by bones on a modern landscape. PLoS ONE 6:e18057. Miller, Joshua H. 2012. Spatial fidelity of skeletal remains: elk wintering and calving grounds revealed by bones on the Yellowstone landscape. Ecology 93:2474–2482 (primary source). Like this:LikeBe the first to like this. [...]

By: Anna Korn

Anna Korn — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:26:56 +0000

I find this quite interesting and will read the paper. When I lived in the California coast range, we came upon bones and antlers of mule deer quite frequently, but we noticed that rodents gnawing on them broke them down rather quickly, usually within 12 months. Is this not an issue in Yellowstone?

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By: Anna Korn