| paleozoological data suggest euroamerican settlement did not displace ursids and north american elk from lowlands to highlands. | the hypothesis that euroamerican settlement displaced some populations of large mammal taxa from lowland plains habitats to previously unoccupied highland mountain habitats was commonly believed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. by the middle twentieth century biologists had come to favor the hypothesis that euroamerican colonization resulted in the extirpation of populations of large mammal in lowland habitats and those taxa survived in pre-existing relict populations in the ... | 2011 | 21544707 |