naa a22 4500 51073765X CHVBK 20180411083016.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11284-013-1054-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11284-013-1054-9 Climate change impacts population dynamics and distribution shift of moose ( Alces alces ) in Heilongjiang Province of China [Elektronische Daten] [Hongliang Dou, Guangshun Jiang, Philip Stott, Renzhu Piao] The earth is experiencing obvious climate warming, which may impact population dynamics and the distribution of moose (Alces alces). In this study, we examined the effects of density dependence, temperature, snow depth, and the vegetation (NDVI) on the population dynamics of moose in Heilongjiang Province of China using historical data. Our results demonstrated that moose distribution had continued to contract from the 1980s to the 1990s; moose densities and late spring temperatures in the 1980s were negatively correlated to the rate of increase of the moose population; low and high snow depths in the 1990s showed positive and negative effects, respectively, on the rate of population increase; and the effect of NDVI in the 1980s was similar to the effect of snow depth. Therefore, we confirmed that moose population dynamics is influenced both by intrinsic density-dependent and extrinsic habitat factors, especially late spring temperatures. In addition, an increase in late spring temperatures may shift the southern limit of the distribution of the moose northwards, or may isolate the southernmost portion of the moose population because the rate of warming is higher to the north of a present latitudinal constriction in range than it is at the latitude of the southernmost moose. The Ecological Society of Japan, 2013 Climate change nationallicence Population dynamics nationallicence Population distribution nationallicence Moose nationallicence Dou Hongliang College of Wildlife Resources, Northeast Forestry University, 26 Hexing Road, 150040, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China aut Jiang Guangshun College of Wildlife Resources, Northeast Forestry University, 26 Hexing Road, 150040, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China aut Stott Philip School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, The University of Adelaide, 5371, Roseworthy, SA, Australia aut Piao Renzhu Heilongjiang Provincial Academy of Forestry, 150081, Harbin, People's Republic of China aut Ecological Research Springer Japan 28/4(2013-07-01), 625-632 0912-3814 28:4<625 2013 28 11284 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11284-013-1054-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11284-013-1054-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dou Hongliang College of Wildlife Resources, Northeast Forestry University, 26 Hexing Road, 150040, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jiang Guangshun College of Wildlife Resources, Northeast Forestry University, 26 Hexing Road, 150040, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Stott Philip School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, The University of Adelaide, 5371, Roseworthy, SA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Piao Renzhu Heilongjiang Provincial Academy of Forestry, 150081, Harbin, People's Republic of China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ecological Research Springer Japan 28/4(2013-07-01), 625-632 0912-3814 28:4<625 2013 28 11284 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer