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alces-513	Spaeth, Douglas F.; Bowyer, R. Terry; Stephenson, Thomas R.; Barboza, Perry S.; Van Ballenberghe, Victor	NUTRITIONAL QUALITY OF WILLOWS FOR MOOSE: EFFECTS OF TWIG AGE AND DIAMETER	2002	12	.pdf	application/pdf	5254	347	66	Key words: Alaskan moose, Alces alces gigas, digestibility, digestible energy, Kenai Peninsula, nitrogen, nutrition, Salix barclayi, structural carbohydrates, tannin, twig age, twig diameter, willows Browse is an important element in the winter diet of moose (Alces alces) inhabit- ing boreal forests (Peek 1974, 1998; Ludewig and Bowyer 1985; Renecker and Schwartz 1998). Additional measures of forage quality fol- lowed a similar pattern with significant dif- ferences occurring among age classes and diameter categories of willow twigs, except for ash, which differed neither in twig age nor diameter, and lignin, which did not vary with age (Table 1).	cache/alces-513.pdf	txt/alces-513.txt