Wolf-Moose Interaction in Isle Royale National Park-Final Report for Contract CX 6000-3-0049
Peterson RO, Page RE, Risenhoover KL. 1985. Wolf-Moose Interaction in Isle Royale National Park-Final Report for Contract CX 6000-3-0049. Houghton, MI
Summarized here is a twenty-seven year study of wolf and moose populations at Isle Royale National Park, undertaken in 1958 in order to clarify mechanisms of population regulation for this predator-prey system. The titles of the chapters in this manuscript are as follows: 1) Wolf and Moose Research on Isle Royale; 2) The rise and fall of Isle Royale Wolves, 1975-1984 3) The influence of a prey decline on the foraging efficiency of wolves; 4) Wolf avoidance strategies of moose ; 5) Do Wolves alone Limit Moose Population? (a response to a paper written by A. T. Bergerud and others in 1983); 6) The Bottom of the Ladder: Moose-vegetation interaction on Isle Royale (a brief review of the literature on moose-vegetation at Isle Royale, highlightings areas where knowledge is most inadequate); 7) Management Implications. Most of these chapters have been published as papers in professional journals. Appendices are titled: revised life table for Isle Royale moose, raw data files list, and map of Isle Royale.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Peterson, Rolf; Page, Richard; Risenhoover, Kenneth
- Date of Issue
- 1985-12-20
- Units
- ISRO
- Keywords
- Animal Studies, Gray Wolf (Canis lupus), Moose (Alces alces)