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Boom and bust of a moose population – a call for integrated forest management

Milner, Jos M.; van Beest, Floris M.; Storaas, Torstein
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2013
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Milner, J. M., van Beest, F., & Storaas, T. (2013). Boom and bust of a moose population: a call for integrated forest management. European Journal of Forest Research. doi: http://dx.doi.org10.1007/s10342-013-0727-9   10.1007/s10342-013-0727-9
Abstract
There is increasing pressure to manage forests

for multiple objectives, including ecosystem services and

biodiversity, alongside timber production. However, few

forests are currently co-managed for timber and wildlife,

despite potential economic and conservation benefits. We

present empirical data from a commercial Norway spruce

(

Picea abies

) and Scots pine (

Pinus sylvestris

) production

system in southern Norway in which moose (

Alces alces

)

are an important secondary product. Combining long-term

hunting and forestry records, we identified temporal vari-

ation in clear-felling over the past five decades, peaking in

the 1970s. Herbicide treatment of regenerating stands and a

fivefold increase in moose harvest has lead to a reduction in

availability of successional forest per moose of

[

90 %

since the 1960s. Field estimates showed that spraying with

the herbicide glyphosate reduced forage availability by 60

and 96 % in summer and winter, respectively, 4 years after

treatment. It also reduced moose use and habitat selection

of young spruce stands compared with unsprayed stands.

Together these lines of evidence suggest that forest man-

agement led to an increase in moose carrying capacity

during the 1970s and a subsequent decline thereafter. This

is likely to have contributed to observed reductions in moose population productivity in southern Norway and is

counter to sustainable resource management. We therefore

call for better integration and long-term planning between

forestry and wildlife management to minimise forest

damage and the development of large fluctuations in

ungulate populations.
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European Journal of Forest Research

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