Effects of forest disturbance and soil depth on digestible energy for moose and white-tailed deer / Hewlette S. Crawford [and three others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Crawford, Hewlette S., Jr., 1931- author.

Contributor:

Northeastern Forest Experiment Station (Radnor, Pa.), issuing body.

Series:

U.S. Forest Service research paper NE ; 682.

U.S. Forest Service research paper NE ; 682

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Defoliation--Maine--Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge--Statistics.

Defoliation.

Browse (Animal food)--Maine--Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge--Statistics.

Browse (Animal food).

Moose--Food--Maine--Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge--Statistics.

Moose.

Deer--Food--Maine--Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge--Statistics.

Deer.

Deer--Food.

Moose--Food.

Maine--Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge.

Genre:

Statistics

Statistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (13 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Radnor, Pennsylvania : United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, [1993]

Summary:

S2Spruce budworm defoliation, clearcutting for salvage, and prescribed burning of clearcut areas on deep and shallow soils influenced deer and moose foraging in eastern Maine spruce-fir forests from 1980 to 1984. Plant standing crop biomass, seasonal plant selection by tractable moose and white-tailed deer, and digestible energy for deer and moose were determined for each treatment. Early successional plant species were most abundant on burned areas, and were common on clearcut areas. Increase in biomass after defoliation was substantial. Deer and moose ate many of the same plant species, but in different proportions. Deer found more desirable foods on deep than on shallow soils and were more selective of plant parts than moose. Deer digested their diets slightly better than moose from late spring through fall. Deer obtained more digestible energy than moose during fall and early winter on all treatments. Moose obtained more digestible energy than deer during spring and summer on burned areas where forage was abundant. Available energy by treatment was significantly different for moose year round and for deer during spring and fall: clearcut and burn clearcut>defoliated>undefoliated (control).S3.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed Aug. 9, 2013).

"November 1993."

Includes bibliographical references (page 13).

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

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OCLC:

625598855

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