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Fire Drives Transcontinental Variation in Tree Birch Defense against Browsing by Snowshoe Hares
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Cleland, D. T., Clausen, T. P., Hawkins, C. D. B., Picone, P. M., Moore, J. E., Bryant, J. P., Stevens, M. T., Kirilenko, A. P., Malone, T., Swihart, R. K., Landhausser, S. M., Cebrian, M., Veitch, A. M., Paragi, T. F., Jakubas, W. J., Packee, E. C., Carriere, S., Bodony, K. L., Williams, J. H., Popko, R. A., Carlson, M. R.
Abstract: Fire has been the dominant disturbance in boreal America since the Pleistocene, resulting in a spatial mosaic in which the most fire occurs in the continental northwest. Spatial variation in snowshoe hare ( Lepus americanus) density reflects the fire mosaic. Because fire initiates...
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Boutin, S., Zuleta, G., Krebs, C. J., O'Donoghue, M., Hofer, E. J., Murray, D. L.
Coyotes and lynx are the two most important mammalian predators of snowshoe hares throughout much of the boreal forest. Populations of hares cycle in abundance, with peaks in density occurring every 8-11 yr, and experimental results suggest that predation is a necessary factor causing these...