{"id":15,"date":"2015-10-18T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-11-09T21:48:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T21:48:53","slug":"stephen-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/merrill\/stephen-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Estimating winter carrying capacity for bison in Wood Buffalo National Park<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bison (<em>bison bison<\/em>) in the Peace-Athabasca Delta (PAD) o f Wood Buffalo National Park have been fewer than the neighbouring Hay Camp since the late 1990s despite being greater in the 1970-80s. I compared the winter nutritional carrying capacity (K) o f the PAD to the Hay Camp, assuming varying snow depth and forage preferences, to determine whether K was restricting in the PAD. I sampled plant cover and biomass to estimate forage availability and quality within five vegetation types, and estimated K for the extent o f these types. The PAD had more biomass o f preferred species, <em>Carex atherodes<\/em> and <em>Calamagrostis spp<\/em>., than the Hay Camp, resulting in 4 to 12 times the K of the Hay Camp. I simulated the effect o f non-native plants on K assuming a 65% average reduction in preferred forage. Non-natives were more widespread and abundant in the PAD, but did not reduce K below that of Hay Camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estimating winter carrying capacity for bison in Wood Buffalo National Park Bison (bison bison) in the Peace-Athabasca Delta (PAD) o f Wood Buffalo National Park have been fewer than the neighbouring Hay Camp since the late 1990s despite being greater in the 1970-80s. I compared the winter nutritional carrying capacity (K) o f the PAD &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/merrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/merrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/merrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/merrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/merrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/merrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/merrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/merrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}