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SUBMITTER: Felton AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7002458 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Felton Annika M AM Holmström Emma E Malmsten Jonas J Felton Adam A Cromsigt Joris P G M JPGM Edenius Lars L Ericsson Göran G Widemo Fredrik F Wam Hilde K HK
Scientific reports 20200205 1
Diet quality is an important determinant of animal survival and reproduction, and can be described as the combination of different food items ingested, and their nutritional composition. For large herbivores, human landscape modifications to vegetation can limit such diet-mixing opportunities. Here we use southern Sweden's modified landscapes to assess winter diet mixtures (as an indicator of quality) and food availability as drivers of body mass (BM) variation in wild moose (Alces alces). We id ...[more]