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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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Lakehead University
2000
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Online Access: | http://alcesjournal.org/index.php/alces/article/view/617 |