Muskoxen hair analysis shows diet suffers during snow-heavy Arctic winters
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 13:00
in Biology & Nature
Analysis of hairs from muskoxen in the Arctic tundra indicates they had limited amounts of forage available and relied heavily on body stores during snow-heavy winters, according to a study published April 20, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jesper Bruun Mosbacher from the Arctic Research Centre at Aarhus University, Denmark, and colleagues.