Posted on 03/13/2023 11:05:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Researchers claim that moose are potentially a leading cause of climate change and that the species should be balanced, suggesting they are "one of the biggest potential single sources of carbon emissions from wooded parts of Norway."
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology studied moose in Norwegian forests for several years and concluded that the species have a major effect on vegetation growth and are altering the carbon cycle by dining on tree buds. "Moose are an ecosystem engineer in the forest ecosystem, and strongly impact everything from the species composition and nutrient availability in the forest. A grown animal can eat 50 kilograms of biomass each day during summer," Gunnar Austrheim, an ecologist at the NTNU University Museum, said in a press release.
Moose tend to eat birch and young samplings in clearcut forests, an act researchers claim is where the ungulates "gobble up" possible carbon storage in trees.
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Yes, I always assumed that he was male - the Captain always called him ‘Mr.’
And he always stole the carrots....................
No, reali?
I think when you’re young and in love, they’re uterine contractions.
In other circumstances, they’re FEAR.
When I first met my father-in-law, he wanted to show me around his Pennsylvania town. He was a card, and drove me down a steep hill with lots of humps.
I was askeered...
Ha! Crazy FIL but he must have liked you okay.
I love butterflies on a flower and in my tummy.
We miss him a lot. He grew lots of tomatoes, and would send us the first eating ones that were ripe, in July.
And often when there was a beautiful sunset, he’d call everyone to the window and say, ‘You’ll never see THAT again’.
He passed about 10 years ago...
Seems he left the gift of fond memories for taking out and admiring.
Sounds a blessing to have known him, truly.
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