The impact of predator-induced stress on the snowshoe hare cycle

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 371-394

  Boonstra, Rudy ^a   Hik, David ^a   Singleton, Grant R ^b   Tlnnikov, Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Corticosteroid binding globulin; Cortisol; Cycles, population; Field endocrinology; Gluconeogenesis and glucose metabolism; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Immunosuppression; Predation risk; Snowshoe hare cycles; Stress, chronic; Sublethal effects; Yukon (Canada)

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION RISK; STRESS; SUBLETHAL EFFECT;

CANADA; YUKON TERRITORY;

LAGOMORPHA; LEPUS; LEPUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 0031709736     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1998)068[0371:TIOPIS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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