U.S.-Sweden Cooperative Research:  Ecological Adaptation    Concerning Sodium Usage by Large Mammals Under Seasonally   Stressful Environmental Conditions
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This award will support collaborative research between Professor Peter          A. Jordan, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, and one of his graduate         students with Drs. Ake Pehrson and Goren Cederlund, Grimso Wildlife             Research Station, Riddarhyttan, Sweden.  They will examine theoretical          and applied questions concerning the amount of sodium in the diets of           wild ungulates, particulary moose.  Dr. Jordan's earlier work has shown         that sodium may be a limiting resource for moose and other herbivores           in North American boreal regions, because of its scarcity in normal             terrestrial forages.  Dr. Jordan has recently been studying sodium              relationships in these animals with his Swedish counterparts under              natural conditions and those in which sodium sources (salt blocks) are          provided by the researchers.  This research will be concerned with how          large mammalian herbivore scope with cold periods when plants which             provide sodium are scarce.                                                                                                                                      The research station at Grimso provides excellent facilities to monitor         animal behavior by telemetry and to conduct feeding experiments with            captive moose.  The proposed cooperation presents the U.S. investigator         with an opportunity to use highly specialized facilities abroad that            are not easily available to him in the U.S.  The researchers will carry         out physiological examinations of the animals, as well as conduct               population censuses to understand better how large animals survive              under stressful environmental, conditions.
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