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Use of bison wallows by anurans on Konza Prairie.
Abstract
Historically, bison were of great importance to the grassland ecosystem, affecting plants and other organisms directly through grazing and indirectly by creating soil disturbances, such as wallows. When bison were reintroduced to the Konza Prairie Biological Station, Kansas, they reactivated relic wallows as well as created new ones. Wallows, like other ephemeral pools, may be used by organisms as aquatic habitat and as breeding sites. The objective of our study was to systematically monitor bison wallows after they filled and to ascertain their use by amphibians. We also examined long-term climatic records from the Konza Prairie area to assess the past viability of bison wallows as breeding habitats for anurans, which must complete metamorphosis before wallows dry. The amount of precipitation and cool temperatures required to prolong the hydroperiod necessary for completion of metamorphosis occurred in only about 20% of the years examined. Bison may have been important in the life histories of prairie anurans by creating “pools” in the form of wallows that could be used as breeding sites. However, more information about the life history of individual species of anurans is needed before viability of bison wallows as a breeding habitat can be determined.
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“The American bison (Bison bison), or American buffalo, has been called an ecosystem engineer and a keystone species because of the role of bison in shaping plant communities, and their interactions with other animal species (Boyce et al., 2022; Geremia et al., 2019; Gerlanc & Kaufman, 2003; Joern, 2005; Knapp et al., 1999; Krueger, 1986).”
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“Bison also modify their environment by moving across the landscape and creating disturbance in the form of stomping, wallowing, seed dispersal, and grazing (Harvey and Fortin, 2013); behavior that results in increased landscape arthropod, amphibian, and plant heterogeneity (Polley and Collins, 1984;Gerlanc and Kaufman, 2003;Nickell et al., 2018).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- GERLANC, N. M., & KAUFMAN, G. A.
- Affiliations
- Kansas State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- GERLANC, NICOLE M.
- Venue
- The American Midland Naturalist
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame
- Published
- 2003-07
- Volume
- 150
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 158-168
- ISSN
- 0003-0031 (ISSN-L)
- 1938-4238
- OpenAlex
- W2125650924
- Cited by
- 55
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 3 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 1.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The American Midland Naturalist (publishedVersion)
- BioOne Complete (BioOne) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Kansas
- Nature Conservancy
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Keywords
- Anura, amphibian breeding habitat, ephemeral ponds, hydroperiod, bison reintroduction, Konza Prairie, precipitation, temperature, metamorphosis, prairie grassland, soil disturbance
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