A spatially explicit model of moose foraging and energetics

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 505-521

  Moen, Ron ^a   Pastor, John ^b   Cohen, Yosef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Natural Resources Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Alces alces; Energy; Foraging strategy; Metabolism; Moose; Simulation; Spatially explicit model

Indexed keywords

ENERGETICS; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; MODELLING; MOOSE;

ALCES ALCES; ODOCOILEUS;

EID: 0030616870     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[0505:asemom]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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