Beaver Food Utilization Studies
Aldous SE. 1938. Beaver Food Utilization Studies. The Journal of Wildlife Management. 2(4):215-222
In order to improve the basis for management, the writer in the fall of 1936 began a study of beavers in relation to the forest with the view of finding answers to the following questions: 1. What is the relative importance of the various food species and their size classes to the beaver? 2. What percentage of the trees cut by beavers are utilized and what proportion of the food available from them is actually consumed? 3. Considered as a standard ration how much of the best food do beaver require daily? From the findings of such studies, it seemed that methods of estimating carrying capacity of beaver sites now occupied and of potential sites could be determined and that anyone contemplating beaver farming involving the artificial feeding of beavers could appraise available food in terms of beaver years.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Aldous, Shaler
- Units
- ISRO
- Keywords
- Animal Studies, Beaver (Castor canadensis), Food Preferences