A seasonal feast : the use of moose slaughter remains by the boreal forest scavenger community in south-eastern Norway

• Main Author: Kronenberg, Wera Nadina Maria
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Alces alces; avian; biomass; camera traps; carrion; hunting; moose; scavenger; Norway; Slaughter
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2585123

Scavenging by vertebrates is one of multiple foraging strategies to utilize food resources and a key ecological process in food web dynamics. It is used in periods of environmental stress such as shortage of prey, and as an alternative food resource. Anthropogenic resources like hunting remains can...