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Moose selecting for specific nutritional composition of birch places limits on food acceptability

Despite decades of intense research, it remains largely unsolved which nutritional factors underpin food selection by large herbivores in the wild. We measured nutritional composition of birch foliage (Betula pubescens) available to, and used by, moose (Alces alces) in natural settings in two neighb...

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Autores principales: Wam, Hilde K., Felton, Annika M., Stolter, Caroline, Nybakken, Line, Hjeljord, Olav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5773297/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29375784
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3715