Foraging Ecology And Sociality Of Muskoxen In Northwestern Alaska

• Main Author: Ihl, Claudia
• Other Authors: Ruess, Roger, Klein, David
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Ecology; Zoology; Cape Krusenstern; Fairbanks; caribou; muskox; ovibos moschatus; Rangifer tarandus; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/8928

Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2007 I investigated sociality and winter foraging ecology of muskoxen ( Ovibos moschatus) in Cape Krusenstern National Monument, northwestern Alaska. The nutritional value of moss (Hylocomium splendens, Tomenthypnum nitens) for muskoxen was evalua...