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Examining the impact of climate change on snowshoe hare demography and community interactions in the northern boreal forest
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Ecologists are under increasing pressure to predict the influence of climate change on species demography along with the broader impacts on community and ecosystem structure. Predicting community responses to climate change, however, is a formidable challenge, that can be ameliorated by...
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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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1998
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...