Forage availability for moose of young silver birch and Scots pine

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 187, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 149-158

  Kalén, Christer ^a   Bergquist, Jonas ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b National Forestry Board   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Betula pendula; Biomass distribution; Browsing damages; Gap model; Pinus sylvestris

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; HARVESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COMPUTER MODELS; FORAGE AVAILABILITY;

FORESTRY;

BROWSING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; PEST DAMAGE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SILVICULTURE; UNGULATE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

ALCES ALCES; ANIMALIA; BETULA; BETULA PENDULA; CAPREOLUS; CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS; CERVIDAE; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 0347950031     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(03)00316-5     Document Type: Article

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