Buffalo size could shrink by almost half

+ Buffalo as ecosystem engineers

 

Scientists predict North American buffalo (Bison, bison) will shrink in overall size as temperatures on the face of the Earth rise.  In their report 'Bison body size and climate change' published in 2018 in Ecology and Evolution, Jeff Martin, Jim Mean and Perry Barboza write, "Average annual temperature has warmed by 6°C since the Last Glacial Maxi…