Arctic Moose Follow the River Valleys
GPS tracking in Alaska showed that half of 24 female moose migrated between summer and winter ranges. Migrants…
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Female Moose Were More Likely to Migrate When Winter Ranges Had More Wildfire Disturbance
GPS data from 461 female moose in central British Columbia showed that spring migration was more likely when…
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Moose Largely Stayed Within Their Ranges as Two British Columbia Wildfires Spread
GPS tracking of 20 adult female moose during two 2021 wildfires in British Columbia found no consistent increase…
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Chromosome-Level Moose Genome Preserves the Two Inherited Haplotype Sets Separately
A bioRxiv preprint from a male moose in southeastern Norway reports a haplotype-resolved chromosome-level reference with two separate…
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Vector-Borne Pathogen DNA Detected in 10 of 23 Finnish Moose Calves
PCR detected Trypanosoma, Anaplasma phagocytophilum or Bartonella DNA in 10 of 23 Finnish moose calves. The small regional…
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Forest Disturbance Increased Modelled Habitat Suitability for Four European Herbivores
Tracking data from 3,069 animals showed that forest disturbance generally increased modelled relative habitat suitability for moose, red…
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Swedish Moose Winter Core Areas Reflected Forest-Patch Arrangement More Than Individual Patch Geometry
GPS data from 176 adult moose across seven Swedish populations showed that winter core areas differed from peripheral…
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Moose Lived and Reproduced in Colorado Before the 1978 Reintroduction
Historical records document male, female and juvenile moose in Colorado before 1978, while Indigenous and archaeological evidence points…
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Two Tapeworms Caused a Massive Co-Infection in a Polish Moose
A four-year-old moose from northeastern Poland carried massive larval infections with Taenia hydatigena and Echinococcus canadensis G8, confirmed…
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Sequencing Reveals Frequent Filarial Infections in Wild Alaska Moose
Filarial nematode DNA was found in 98 of 190 wild moose blood samples from Alaska, and deep sequencing…
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Hunting Dogs Increased Recorded Moose Unevenly Across Classes in Finland
Analysis of about half a million Finnish hunter observations found that dog use altered detection unevenly among moose…
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Logging and Wildfire Were Projected to Leave More Moose and Bear Forage but Less Caribou Forage for Decades
Forest-growth models for Alberta projected that the first decades after timber harvest and wildfire would generally provide more…
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Hunters Supplied a Decade of Moose Fat Measurements in Montana
Measurements from 1,248 harvested moose revealed seasonal fat loss in bulls and broad regional patterns, while highlighting the…
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Low Fat Reserves Were Linked to Lower Pregnancy and Survival in Southern Moose
Repeated measurements in Wyoming linked body fat to pregnancy and adult survival, while calf recruitment showed no direct…
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Moose Summer Diets Differed Between Three Areas of British Columbia
DNA from faeces identified plants from 14 families and 18 genera, revealing strong geographic variation across north-central British…
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Caribou Recruitment Was Lower in More Productive, Disturbed Canadian Landscapes
Across 40 boreal caribou study areas in Canada, calf recruitment declined along gradients of higher primary productivity, human…
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Moose Maintained Habitat Choices After Widespread Beetle-Driven Canopy Loss
GPS data from southeastern Wyoming showed little overall change in habitat selection after mountain pine beetles killed extensive…
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Predators, weather and young forest were linked to Finland’s moose calf decline
A national analysis found different combinations of pressures in southern and northern Finland rather than one cause shared…
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GPS Waypoints from Simulated Aerial Moose Surveys Were Displaced by Tens of Metres
A fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter test in Alaska found systematic GPS waypoint errors large enough to affect fine-scale…
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Model Links High-Density Moose Dynamics to Density Dependence, Calf Predation and Dispersal
Four decades of change in Quebec’s Forillon National Park were best explained by density dependence, calf predation and…
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