Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to determine the relationship
between moose pellet counts and treatment at the
stand-level. Examination of residuals indicated that the assumptions
of homogeneity and normality were satisfied. In addition,
we were interested in the degree to which variation among moose
pellet counts could be attributed to the degree of regeneration in
the surrounding landscape. Home ranges for North American
moose can vary, on average, from 10–40 km2 (Crête, 1988). Accordingly,
we measured the area of INT, CUT and FIRE in circular regions
surrounding the plot centers at three scales: 10 km2
(1.75 km radius), 20 km2 (2.5 km radius), and 40 km2 (3.55 km radius).
Since we found that the random selection of stands expanded
to larger scales resulted in some spatial overlap in two
home ranges of both the CUT and INT treatments, we compared
moose pellet counts, silvicultural treatments and between-site distances
using Focus 2.1 (Holland et al., 2004) to evaluate potential
lack of spatial independence associated with multi-scale analysis.