Foliage and winter woody browse quality of an important Salix browse species: effects of presence of alder-derived nitrogen and winter browsing by Alaskan moose (Alces alces gigas)

• Main Author: Burrows, Justin
• Other Authors: Kielland, Knut, Wagner, Diane, Ruess, Roger
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: willows; browsing; growth; chemical ecology; Alaska; Tanana River Valley; moose; food; soils; nitrogen content; alder; ecology; Bonanza; Fairbanks; Alces alces
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/10891

Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2019 In this study, I examined the relationship between soil nitrogen and winter browsing by moose on the physical and chemical characteristics of Salix alaxensis; specifically stem production, leaf nutritional quality, and stem nutritional quality of ti...