Datasets / Energy expenditure of moose on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge: Annual progress report


Energy expenditure of moose on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge: Annual progress report

Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior

Issued over 9 years ago

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Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a single dataset

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

The objective of this work unit is to measure the energy requirements of moose during different seasons and for different sex and age classes. Techniques employed will permit partitioning of the energy contained in plants into various components down to net energy available for production. This information, along with data collected on forage supply and quality in a companion study, will be used in a mathematical model which can predict the capacity of the Kenai National Moose Range to support moose. This report summarizes the work completed prior to May 1981. Results include food intake rates, digestion trials, rumen turnover time, seasonal energy expenditure, methane production, simulation modeling, and energy partitioning.