Appendix B. Sex-specific adult body mass (
, kg ±n SE) and decay rate (
) estimated from monomolecular growth curves fitted to carcass mass data from 14 Norwegian moose populations (19912003 period). Age at which 99 % of
is reached (age99%) was also computed based on the growth curves.
| Sex | Males | Females | ||||||
| Municipality no. | age99% | n | age99% | n | ||||
| 425 | 239.08 ± 2.10 | 0.77 ± 0.02 | 5.94 | 1037 | 185.59 ± 1.20 | 1.20 ± 0.03 | 3.80 | 742 |
| 426 | 245.35 ± 2.67 | 0.75 ± 0.02 | 6.13 | 726 | 187.20 ± 1.54 | 1.11 ± 0.03 | 4.12 | 567 |
| 501 | 237.80 ± 4.99 | 0.64 ± 0.03 | 7.13 | 186 | 180.11 ± 2.18 | 1.02 ± 0.05 | 4.49 | 195 |
| 516 | 233.86 ± 4.29 | 0.64 ± 0.02 | 7.17 | 675 | 172.95 ± 1.22 | 1.02 ± 0.02 | 4.46 | 910 |
| 522 | 245.85 ± 1.95 | 0.61 ± 0.01 | 7.57 | 1798 | 172.72 ± 0.84 | 1.02 ± 0.02 | 4.47 | 1505 |
| 538 | 240.30 ± 4.42 | 0.67 ± 0.03 | 6.82 | 418 | 178.76 ± 1.41 | 1.05 ± 0.03 | 4.34 | 518 |
| 709 | 221.10 ± 2.69 | 0.75 ± 0.02 | 6.11 | 717 | 178.26 ± 1.00 | 1.00 ± 0.02 | 4.55 | 955 |
| 728 | 225.26 ± 2.17 | 0.73 ± 0.02 | 6.30 | 942 | 177.83 ± 0.84 | 0.94 ± 0.02 | 4.84 | 1344 |
| 811 | 215.16 ± 2.24 | 0.77 ± 0.02 | 5.96 | 556 | 173.42 ± 1.05 | 0.98 ± 0.02 | 4.65 | 769 |
| 1714 | 204.58 ± 1.84 | 0.94 ± 0.02 | 4.85 | 1845 | 179.53 ± 0.91 | 1.08 ± 0.01 | 4.25 | 1732 |
| 1824 | 268.88 ± 2.45 | 0.60 ± 0.01 | 7.66 | 1164 | 193.62 ± 1.28 | 0.98 ± 0.02 | 4.67 | 852 |
| 1825 | 267.88 ± 3.16 | 0.56 ± 0.01 | 8.14 | 757 | 190.22 ± 1.72 | 0.92 ± 0.02 | 4.99 | 475 |
| 1826 | 264.37 ± 2.80 | 0.59 ± 0.01 | 7.80 | 833 | 190.64 ± 1.58 | 0.98 ± 0.02 | 4.67 | 623 |
| 1922 | 260.28 ± 3.35 | 0.72 ± 0.02 | 6.38 | 767 | 212.90 ± 1.25 | 0.97 ± 0.02 | 4.70 | 812 |
| mean (± SE) | 240.70 ± 5.33 | 0.70 ± 0.03 | 6.71 ± 0.24 | 887.2 ± 124.1 | 183.84 ± 2.89 | 1.02 ± 0.02 | 4.50 ± 0.08 | 857.1 ± 112.3 |