Behavioural responses of coyotes and lynx to the snowshoe hare cycle

Oikos

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 169-183

  O'Donoghue, Mark ^a,b   Boutin, Stan ^a,b   Krcbs, Charles J ^a,b   Murray, Dennis L ^a,b   Hofer, Elizabeth J ^a,b  

^a Ecology Group   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSE; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; HABITAT USE; POPULATION CYCLE; PREDATOR-PREY RELATIONSHIP;

CANADA; YUKON TERRITORY;

CANIDAE; CANIS LATRANS; CARNIVORA; LEPUS; LEPUS AMERICANUS; LYNX; LYNX LYNX; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; SCIURIDAE; TAMIASCIURUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031750379     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546927     Document Type: Article

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