Moose browsing and forage availability: A scale-dependent relationship?

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 372-380

  Månsson, Johan ^a   Andrén, Henrik ^a   Pehrson, Åke ^a   Bergström, Roger ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b THE FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FORAGE CONSUMPTION; FORAGE DIVERSITY; MOOSE DENSITY;

ECOLOGY;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BROWSING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FORAGE; HOME RANGE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; POPULATION DENSITY; RUMINANT; SCALE EFFECT; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

ALCES ALCES;

EID: 34249945462     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z07-015     Document Type: Article

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