An assessment of overwinter food limitation in a snowshoe hare population at a cyclic low

Oecologia

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 50-58

  Murray, Dennis L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cycle; Food supplementation; Population dynamics; Snowshoe hare

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; FOOD LIMITATION; LAGOMORPH; POPULATION ECOLOGY;

CANADA;

LEPUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 0032819242     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050832     Document Type: Article

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