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Title: Response of a subarctic salt marsh plant community to foraging by captive lesser snow geese
Journal: EcoScience
Authors: A. B. Zacheis, J. W. Hupp, and R. W. Ruess
Date: 2002
Summary: The impacts of goose (Anser caerulescens caerulescens) herbivory on both plant biomass, tiller density and tissue nitrogen concentration of salt marsh communities in Upper Cook Inlet, Alaska (61° 15' N, 150° 30' W) were investigated in spring. Five plots with fences were installed in spring and removed after goose left. Five treatments were applied: control (no feeding), short period of feeding (3 goose-hour) with feces and short period feeding without feces, long period of feeding (6 goose-hour) with feces and without feces. Fasted geese were allo ...
Agrovoc Control Words: Marshes, Grazing, Wildlife
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