FORAGING ON NORWAY SPRUCE AND ITS POTENTIAL ASSOCIATION WITH A WASTING SYNDROME IN MOOSE IN SWEDEN

We studied a sudden occurrence of moose (Alces alces) browsing twigs and stripping bark of Norway spruce (Picea abies) that coincided temporally and spatially with a moose wasting syndrome in southern Älvsborg County in southwestern Sweden from 1990 to 1992. Spruce is a low preference forage for moo...

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Main Authors: Faber, William E., Pehrson, Åke
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Lakehead University 2000
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Online Access:http://alcesjournal.org/index.php/alces/article/view/617