Electoral shooting as a management tool moose populations

• Main Authors: V. M. Glushkov, A. P. Pankratov
• Format: Dataset
• Language: Russian
• Published: Theoretical and Applied Ecology 2014
• Subjects: moose; selective shooting; productivity; manageability; Alces alces
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25750/1995-4301-2014-2-101-108; http://envjournal.ru/ari/v2014/v2/files/14216.pdf

In the face of increasing human impact on wildlife resources, selective shooting is regarded as a method of compen­sation of populations caused by hunting. Moose hunting (Alces alces L.), structured by sex and age composition of the population is capable of forming a structure with specified reproductive properties. In the Kirov region , in an experiment on the area of about 63 hectares of land (42,5 hectares of forest ) during 10 years increase in the beginning of winter amounts for 2,2 (from 0,178 to 0,392 ), and the intensity of hunting tripled (from 0,4 to 1,2 animal/1000 hectares of forest), which is 5,47 times higher than the corresponding figure in the region. For comparison, in Finland, a country-wide, moose herd growth under the influence of electoral hunting increased 3,6 times , and hunting increased 10-12,5 times. Analysis of the materials showed that the management of the main population parameters, such as density, is really achievable, the trends direction is predictable. Approbation of selective moose shooting in some regions of Russias needed for finalizing the technology of works, ensuring sustainable use of the species.