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Examining predation risk and antipredator responses of snowshoe hares in Northern Canada’s boreal forest
DownloadFall 2020
Predators limit prey populations not only through direct killing of prey but also through changes in behavior due to predation risk and negative fitness consequences that result. Prey species are known to respond to both predictable (e.g. risky times and places) and unpredictable variation (e.g....
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Spring 2010
A ubiquitous problem for all foragers is the trade-off between acquiring food energy while simultaneously avoiding the risk of predation. In central montane Alberta I modelled how ungulate forage changes with succession within cutblocks and the implications for forage availability to ungulates...