Mortality by moonlight: Predation risk and the snowshoe hare

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 938-944

  Griffin, Paul C ^a   Griffin, Suzanne C ^a   Waroquiers, Carl ^b   Mills, L Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Moon phase; Moonlight; Movement; Predation rate; Predation risk; Prey behavior

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; LAGOMORPH; MORTALITY; PREDATION RISK;

ANIMALIA; LEPUS AMERICANUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 23944480637     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ari074     Document Type: Article

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