Long-term browsing impact around diversionary feeding stations for moose in Southern Norway

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1900-1911

  van Beest, Floris M ^a,b   Gundersen, Hege ^b,c   Mathisen, Karen Marie ^a,d   Milner, Jos M ^a   Skarpe, Christina ^a  

^a INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Browsing pressure; Central place foraging; Forage depletion; Picea abies; Pinus sylvestris; Resource selection; Scandinavia; Supplemental feeding

Indexed keywords

ALCES ALCES; BOREAL FORESTS; BROWSING PATTERNS; COMMERCIAL TREE SPECIES; FAECAL PELLET; FORAGING THEORY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MOOSE BROWSING; NORWAY SPRUCE; PICEA ABIES; PICEA ABIES (L.) KARST; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PRESSURE INDEX; RESOURCE DEPLETION; RESOURCE SELECTION; SCANDINAVIA; SCOTS PINE; SOUTHERN NORWAY; SPATIAL EXTENT; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANGES; TREE SPECIES; WINTER FEEDING;

FORESTRY; PELLETIZING;

FEEDING;

BOREAL FOREST; BROWSING; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRAZING PRESSURE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; RESOURCE SELECTION; RUMINANT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

FEEDING; FORESTRY; NORWAY; PELLETING; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; SCANDINAVIA; SHOOTS;

NORWAY;

ALCES ALCES; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; UNGULATA;

EID: 77950300439     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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