Numerical responses of coyotes and lynx to the snowshoe hare cycle

Oikos

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 150-162

  O'Donoghue, Mark ^a,b   Boutin, Stan ^c   Krebs, Charles J ^a,b   Hofer, Elizabeth J ^d  

^a Ecology Group   (Canada)

^b Dept of Forest Rsrc and Agrifoods   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COYOTE; LYNX; POPULATION CYCLE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SNOWSHOE HARE;

CANADA; YUKON TERRITORY;

CANIDAE; CANIS LATRANS; LEPUS; LEPUS AMERICANUS; LYNX; LYNX LYNX; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030766716     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546526     Document Type: Article

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