Literature Review on Spatiotemporal Scaling of North American Bison Ecology, 1889-2023

A systematic review of primary literature from 1889 to 2023 on North American bison managed as wildlife. The study validates spatiotemporal structure across ecological phenomena for Plains and Wood bison across their historic range and analyzes the impact of fencing. The dataset is a 675.8 KB document authored by Johanna A. Halcyon and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatiotemporal scaling patterns in bison ecology based on the systematic literature review
• Assess the disruptive impact of fencing on ecological phenomena based on the comparison of free-ranging and fenced herds
• Identify research gaps for Wood bison conservation based on the noted lack of studies on fenced populations
• Inform bison conservation policy and management strategies based on the demonstrated limitations of fencing

Strengths

• Systematic review covers a long temporal span from 1889 to 2023
• Explicitly compares ecological scaling between free-ranging and fenced bison herds
• Analysis covers both Plains bison and Wood bison subspecies across their historic range

Limitations

• The dataset is a 675.8 KB document; the underlying data tables and row counts are unknown
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• The description notes a lack of research on fenced Wood bison, indicating a data gap for that subspecies

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Systematic review of primary literature

Time Range

1889-2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 04:19:19

Geography

Historic range of North American bison (Plains bison and Wood bison)