Can supplementary feeding be used to redistribute moose Alces alces?

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 85-92

  Sahlsten, Jonas ^a   Bunnefeld, Nils ^a   Månsson, Johan ^a   Ericsson, Göran ^a   Bergström, Roger ^a,b   Dettki, Holger ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b THE FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alces alces; Forage; GPS collars; Habitat improvement; Management tool; Migration; Moose; Pellet counts; Ungulates

Indexed keywords

ALCES ALCES; ANIMALIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 77951696422     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/08-085     Document Type: Article

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