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my professor studied moose in a park up north, where food is a limiting factor in this system. the new foliage is higher in nutrients so her hypothesis was that the moose movement will track the leafing out of plants, which starts on the ridges of the islands in the park and moves downward because the water acts as a refrigerator and keeps stuff cold longer. BUT, the moose feeding on the shoreline (usually females with calves) would stay there and delay switching to more nutritious plants -- it's because the shoreline allowed them to swim over to nearby islands to escape the wolves, which is an example of how islands can be a habitat refuge

















