Evaluating potential drivers of four different types of moose browsing damage in a cross-border context

• Main Author: Hellbaum, Paige McCauley
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Høgskolen i Innlandet 2022
• Subjects: Alces alces; browsing; damage; forestry; habitat management; moose; Pinus sylvestris; Scandinavia; Scots pine; VDP::Landbruks- og Fiskerifag: 900; Norway; Gam
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3043677

Moose (Alces alces) in Scandinavia rely on commercially valuable Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) as a winter food source. Browsing impacts to forest resources are labeled as “damage” and have become especially important along the border between Norway and Sweden, where a semi-migratory moose populatio...