ALCES 45 (2009) CONTENTS IN MEMORIAM - John Lykke...................................................................................... i FOREWORD.............................................................................................................. ii STATUS OF REGIONAL MOOSE POPULATIONS IN EUROPEAN AND ASIATIC RUSSIA........................................................................................Leonid M. Baskin 1 HISTORY AND STATUS OF THE POPULATION DYNAMICS OF MOOSE IN THE STEPPE ZONE OF UKRAINE....................................................Anatolii M. Volokh 5 THE STATUS AND MANAGEMENT OF MOOSE IN THE MURMANSK REGION, RUSSIA............................................Olga A. Makarova and Anatoly M. Khokhlov 13 REGIONAL POPULATIONS AND MIGRATION OF MOOSE IN NORTHERN YAKUTIA, RUSSIA...................................................................Valeriy M. Safronov 17 HISTORY AND STATUS OF MOOSE IN THE ROSTOV REGION, RUSSIA............ ................Viktor A. Minoranskiy, Viktor V. Sidelnikov, and Elena I. Simonovich 21 FRAGMENTATION OF EURASIAN MOOSE POPULATIONS DURING PERIODS OF POPULATION DEPRESSION.........Taras P. Sipko and Marina V. Kholodova 25 STATUS OF REINTRODUCTIONS OF THREE LARGE HERBIVORES IN RUSSIA ...........................................................................................................Taras P. Sipko 35 IMPROVING POPULATION MANAGEMENT AND HARVEST QUOTAS OF MOOSE IN RUSSIA..............................................................Vladimir M. Glushkov 43 THE INFLUENCE OF MOOSE ON TREE SPECIES COMPOSITION IN LIESJÄRVI NATIONAL PARK IN SOUTHERN FINLAND.......................................... ......................................................................Risto Heikkilä and Marita Tuominen 49 MOOSE CONSERVATION IN THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM, USA ...........................................................................................................Robin L. West 59 WOOD QUALITY OF BIRCH (BETULA SPP.) TREES DAMAGED BY MOOSE...... ........................................Sauli Härkönen, Arto Pulkkinen, and Henrik Heräjärvi 67 DEER KED (LIPOPTENA CERVI) DERMATITIS IN HUMANS – AN INCREASING NUISANCE IN FINLAND........................................................................................... ..................Sauli Härkönen, Maria Laine, Martine Vornanen, and Timo Reunala 73 STATUS AND REVIEW OF THE VECTOR-BORNE NEMATODE SETARIA TUNDRA IN FINNISH CERVIDS..................Sauli Laaksonen and Antti Oksanen 81 DEER KED, AN ECTOPARASITE OF MOOSE IN FINLAND: A BRIEF REVIEW OF ITS BIOLOGY AND INVASION...Arja Kaitala, Raine Kortet, Sauli Härkönen, Sauli Laaksonen, Laura Härkönen, Sirpa Kaunisto, and Hannu Ylönen 85 A PROGRAM TO MONITOR MOOSE POPULATIONS IN THE DEHCHO REGION, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, CANADA...................................Nicholas C. Larter 89 (Continued on inside back cover) COMPENSATORY SHOOT GROWTH IN TREMBLING ASPEN (POPULUS TREMULOIDES MICHX.) IN RESPONSE TO SIMULATED BROWSING............... ..........................................Allan W. Carson, Roy V. Rea, and Arthur L. Fredeen 101 THE EFFECTS OF HUMAN ACTIVITY ON SUMMER HABITAT USE BY MOOSE .........................................Odd N. Lykkja, Erling Johan Solberg, Ivar Herfindal, Jonathan Wright, Christer Moe Rolandsen, and Martin G. Hanssen 109 HOW MOOSE SELECT FORESTED HABITAT IN GROS MORNE NATIONAL PARK, NEWFOUNDLAND.......................................Brian. E. McLaren, S. Taylor, and S. H. Luke 125 REDUCED GENETIC DIVERSITY IN TWO INTRODUCED AND ISOLATED MOOSE POPULATIONS IN ALASKA..................................................Kris J. Hundertmark 137 ASSESSMENT OF A LINE TRANSECT FIELD METHOD TO DETERMINE WINTER TICK ABUNDANCE ON MOOSE..............Meghan Sine, Karen Morris, and David Knupp 143 6TH INTERNATIONAL MOOSE SYMPOSIUM......................................................... 147 PREVIOUS MEETING SITES................................................................................. 149 DISTINGUISHED MOOSE BIOLOGIST - PAST RECIPIENTS............................... 150 DISTINGUISHED MOOSE BIOLOGIST - AWARD CRITERIA ............................... 151 EDITORIAL REVIEW COMMITTEE........................................................................ 152 ADDITIONAL COPIES Available from: Lakehead University Bookstore, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B 5E1 Alces 39-45 Price $40.00 Canadian or U.S. each (including supplementary issues) Alces 24-38 Price $38.00 Canadian or U.S. each (including supplementary issues) Alces 17-23 Price $20.00 Canadian or U.S. each Proceedings of the North American Moose Conference and Workshop 8-16 Price $20.00 Canadian or U.S. each Make cheques, money orders or purchase orders payable to Lakehead University Bookstore. 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