Download or read book Moose Alces Alces Browse Availability and Utilization in Cape Breton Highlands National Park written by Sean Basquill and published by Halifax, N.S. : Parks Canada Atlantic Region. This book was released on 1997 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and presents results from a spring/summer 1996 moose browsing survey conducted to determine the availability and utilization of winter browse in Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Observations are made regarding differences in forest structure and browsing intensity between various biotopes of the Park; the percentage utilization of available biomass by moose; the areas where moose concentrated their efforts; and the influence of moose winter browsing on the functional dynamics of Park forests.
Download or read book Moose Alces Alces Browse Availability and Utilization in Cape Breton Highlands National Park written by Parks Canada and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science written by Nova Scotian Institute of Science and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science written by Nova Scotian Institute of Science, Halifax and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moose Alces Alces Browse Availability and Use in Response to Post fire Succession on Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge Alaska written by Erin L. Julianus and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I examined post-fire moose habitat dynamics on Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge in interior Alaska with the objective of increasing understanding of local moose habitat characteristics. I estimated browse density, biomass, and summer browse use in a 2005 burn, 1990 burn, 1972 burn, and an unburned area. I revisited each site the following spring to estimate browse availability and removal during winter. In addition to evaluating browse production and use, I estimated proportional habitat use of varying-aged burns by 51 VHF-collared moose. I found that summer browse production and winter browse availability were highest in the 1990 and 2005 burns. I found that summer and winter browse use was highest in the 1990 burn. Collared moose generally avoided recently burned stands and demonstrated preference for >30 year old stands in both summer and winter. Moose demonstrated preference for unburned stands during calving. Although biomass production and availability were highest in 11 – 30 year old stands, disproportionate use of food resources in burns was evident. This disproportionate use of burns and food resources could be due to a variety of reasons including resource type, historic moose distribution patterns, and predation avoidance strategies.
Download or read book Moose at Cape Breton Highlands National Park written by George Frederick Boyer and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of Moose Browsing on Plant Growth and Succession at Cape Breton Highlands National Park written by Tamara Monica Broaders and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Examination of the Absence of Established Moose Alces Alces Populations in Southeastern Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia written by Helen L. Kwan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of Hyperabundant Moose Alces Alces on Stream Ecosystem Functioning and Structure in Cape Breton Highlands Nova Scotia written by Jessica MacSween and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrestrial consumers can influence forest regeneration, but few studies have investigated the impacts of terrestrial consumers on freshwater ecosystems. I investigated the potential for cross-ecosystem effects of hyperabundant moose on stream ecosystems in the Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia. I predicted that watersheds with higher moose impacts would have higher stream temperatures, total nitrogen, electrical conductivity, periphyton biomass, and macroinvertebrate abundances. I analyzed existing long-term data on 3rd and 4th order streams and conducted a field study on 1st and 2nd order streams to test for crossecosystem impacts of moose in the Cape Breton Highlands. I found evidence for moose impacts on total nitrogen and electrical conductivity. However, I found no evidence for higher stream temperatures and periphyton biomass, with limited evidence of moose impacts on macroinvertebrate abundances. This study provides insight into the effects of large ungulates within and across boreal forest ecosystems with potential implications for landscape-scale management of hyperabundant ungulates.
Download or read book Natural History of Nova Scotia Theme regions written by Derek S. Davis and published by [Halifax, N.S.] : Nova Scotia Museum. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes the relationships between non-living and living elements as they actually occur in the Nova Scotia landscape. This is achieved by use of a geographical classification system of regions, districts, and units that are defined according to distinctive landscape characteristics. Information presented for the various levels of classification includes geology, landscape development, soils, plants, animals, cultural features, climate, hydrology, and scenic quality. Includes glossary and index.
Download or read book Management of Large Mammalian Carnivores in North America written by The Wildlife Society and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review addresses the current management of larger mammalian carnivores to increase, maintain, or reduce their numbers, while taking into account the population of certain ungulate prey and their relation to predators, social pressures and attitudes of the public towards predators, and the effects of sport hunting and trapping on carnivore population dynamics. This review considers brown bears "(Ursus arctos," black bears "(U. americanus)," coyotes "(Canis latrans)," wolves "(Canis lupus, C. lycaon)," and mountain lions "(Felis concolor." The appendix presents the results of a statistical analysis of trends discussed in this report.
Download or read book The Deer of Nova Scotia written by Denis A. Benson and published by Halifax, N.S. : Department of Lands & Forests. This book was released on 1977 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conservation Genetics written by V. Loeschcke and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It follows naturally from the widely accepted Darwinian dictum that failures of populations or of species to adapt and to evolve under changing environments will result in their extinction. Population geneti cists have proclaimed a centerstage role in developing conservation biology theory and applications. However, we must critically reexamine what we know and how we can make rational contributions. We ask: Is genetic variation really important for the persistence of species? Has any species become extinct because it ran out of genetic variation or because of inbreeding depression? Are demographic and environmental stochas ticity by far more important for the fate of a population or species than genetic stochasticity (genetic drift and inbreeding)? Is there more to genetics than being a tool for assessing reproductive units and migration rates? Does conventional wisdom on inbreeding and "magic numbers" or rules of thumb on critical effective population sizes (MVP estimators) reflect any useful guidelines in conservation biology? What messages or guidelines from genetics can we reliably provide to those that work with conservation in practice? Is empirical work on numerous threatened habitats and taxa gathering population genetic information that we can use to test these guidelines? These and other questions were raised in the invitation to a symposium on conservation genetics held in May 1993 in pleasant surroundings at an old manor house in southern Jutland, Denmark.
Download or read book Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science written by Minnesota Academy of Science and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Program of Annual Meeting and Papers Presented at Annual Meeting written by Minnesota Academy of Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tourism and Trails written by Dallen J. Timothy and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2015 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of trails and routes from a tourism and recreation perspective. This cutting-edge volume addresses conceptual and management issues systematically, examining supply, demand, development and impacts associated with trails and routes.
