Beginning in the 1960s, restoration of the European bison (Bison bonasus) in Ukraine has resulted in seven herds with approximately 350 total individuals currently. For the first time, we describe characteristics of habitats used by these seven European bison herds located in forest, forest-steppe, and mountain zones of Ukraine. During the growing season across all ecological zones and herds, we observed variation in bison use of woodland and open habitats associated with temporal variation in landscape scale habitat characteristics. During winter across all ecological zones and herds, variation in habitat use declined dramatically with supplementary feeding that incentivized sedentary association with woodlands. Our descriptive field observations are intended to improve understanding of European bison landscape ecology and serve as a basis for additional quantitative investigations.

从 1960 年代开始，欧洲野牛 ( Bison bonasus ) 的恢复) 在乌克兰已经产生了 7 个畜群，目前共有约 350 只个体。我们首次描述了位于乌克兰森林、森林草原和山区的这七个欧洲野牛群所使用的栖息地特征。在所有生态区和牛群的生长季节，我们观察到野牛对林地和开放栖息地的利用的变化与景观尺度栖息地特征的时间变化有关。在所有生态区和畜群的冬季，栖息地利用的变化显着下降，补充喂养激励了与林地的久坐联系。我们的描述性实地观察旨在提高对欧洲野牛景观生态学的理解，并作为额外定量调查的基础。