Moose on Kalgin Island: are density-dependent processes related to harvest?

Alces | January 1, 1999| | Copyright

ABSTRACT: We studied the demography of a population of Alaskan moose (Alces alces gigas) that was closed to immigration or emigration on Kalgin Island, Alaska, USA, from 1980 to 1987. This island population experienced neither severe weather nor predation from large mammalian carnivores. Effort and success by hunters was monitored carefully, and the age structure from harvested moose was used to estimate population size during each year. Moose were harvested heavily during permit hunts to reduce the population that had overshot carrying capacity. The estimated population ...

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