Mammals: Large Species

Grizzly bears, caribou, and wolves are examples of large mammalian species that USGS researchers study. Listed below are USGS research efforts that involve large mammalian species.

ANTELOPE

• Assessing Impacts of Development on Pronghorn Antelope (See Big Game Species, NOROCK)

BEARS (Black Bear, Brown Bear, Grizzly, Polar Bear)

• Brown and Black Bear Research in Alaska (ASC)

• Black Bear Demographics in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks: Their Interrelationship to Other Carnivores, Habitats, and Humans (See also Population Dynamics and Habitat Relationships of Black Bears and Grizzly Bears in the Northern Rockies, NOROCK)

• Grizzly Bears Research at Colorado Plateau Research Stations (SBSC)
  • Grizzly Bears in North America
  • Grizzly Bear Foraging Behavior. Download the File. (86.77 KB, PDF -- get Adobe Reader)
  • Coefficients of Productivity for Yellowstone's Grizzly Bear Habitat

• Monitoring Grizzly Bear Populations Using DNA: Greater Glacier Grizzly Bear Project 1998-2002 (NOROCK) (also related to Genetics)
  

• Population Dynamics and Repatriation of Black Bears in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain of Arkansas (LSC)

• Polar Bear Research (ASC) (also related to Mammals: Marine Species, Imperiled Species)
  
  
• Polar Bear: New Finding - relationships of polar bears to present and future sea ice environments (ASC) (also realted to Mammals: Marine Species, Imperiled Species)

• Whitebark Pine Communities (NOROCK)

BISON

• Bison in Yellowstone National Park (NOROCK)
  
  
• North American Bison Populations (NOROCK)
  

CARIBOU

• Assessing Wildland Fire Impacts on the Winter Habitat Use and Distribution of Caribou within Alaska Interior Boreal Forest Ecosystem (ASC)

• Caribou Research in Alaska (ASC)

HORSES

• Counting America's Wild Horses and Burros: Better Estimates For Population Management (FORT)

MANATEE

• Manatee Research, Sirenia Project (FISC) (also related to Imperiled Species, Mammals: Marine Species)

SHEEP

• Bighorn Sheep in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park (NOROCK)
  
  
• Bighorn Sheep in Dinosaur National Monument (NOROCK)

WALRUS

• Walrus Research (ASC) (also related to Mammals: Marine Species)

WOLVES

• Population Dynamics and Ecology of Alaska Large Mammals (ASC) (also related to Imperiled Species)

• Wolf Research (ASC)

GENERAL MAMMAL RESEARCH

• Conservation Genetics in the U.S. Geological Survey. Fact Sheet. Download the File. (922 KB, PDF--get Adobe Reader) (applies to all science centers, although the document is from FRESC) (also related to Birds, Genetics, Imperiled Species, Wildlife Health)

• Mammal Research at the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center (NPWRC) (also related to Mammals: Small Species)

• Mammals of Central Ecosystems: Accounts, Descriptions, Software Products, and Other Resources From the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center (NPWRC) (also related to Mammals: Small Species)

• Secret Lives of Wildlife Exposed: Mammals Caught on Video (WERC)  (also related to Mammals: Small Species)

WILDLIFE HEALTH/MAMMAL DISEASES

• Wildlife Diseases (NOROCK)

• Chronic Wasting Disease (NWHC) (also related to Wildlife Health)

• Foot and Mouth Disease (NWHC) (also related to Wildlife Health)

• West Nile Virus (NWHC) (also related to Amphibians and Reptiles, Birds, Invertebrates, Mammals: Small Species, Wildlife Health)