Table 2. The impact of “Starting Date” on the model outputs of migration parameters.

Results are the averaged output for the 41 moose used in this study. The model outputs show estimates of distance (km²), timing (“From” is the start date of migration and “To” is the end date of migration) and duration (number of days) of the migrations. As per Fig 1, Migration 1 or 2 can be either a spring or autumn migration depending on the starting date of the data. For moose in northern Sweden, spring migrations occur in May and June and autumn migrations occur between November and January. For the quantification of start and end of migration, we used the formulas mentioned in Table 1.

		Migration 1			Migration 2
Dataset	Distance (km2)	From	To	Duration	From	To	Duration
Mar'08	9892	02/06/2008	20/06/2008	18	10/11/2008	18/12/2008	39
Apr'08	9616	30/05/2008	17/06/2008	18	07/11/2008	19/12/2008	42
May'08	10003	02/06/2008	21/06/2008	19	06/11/2008	18/12/2008	42
Jun'08	6158	05/10/2008	26/10/2008	21	16/03/2009	12/04/2009	27
Jul'08	8237	01/12/2008	24/12/2008	23	22/04/2009	13/05/2009	21
Aug'08	10301	02/12/2008	27/12/2008	24	29/04/2009	31/05/2009	31
Sep'08	9485	02/12/2008	28/12/2008	26	06/05/2009	26/05/2009	20
Oct'08	9528	12/12/2008	05/01/2009	24	08/05/2009	31/05/2009	23
Nov'08	7873	14/12/2008	09/01/2009	26	08/05/2009	01/06/2009	24
Dec'08	8554	16/01/2009	13/02/2009	28	18/06/2009	23/07/2009	35
Jan'09	7712	01/04/2009	20/04/2009	18	10/09/2009	22/11/2009	73
Feb'09	10461	25/05/2009	11/06/2009	17	10/11/2009	09/01/2010	61