Summer diet selection of snowshoe hares: A test of nutritional hypotheses

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1874-1884

  Seccombe Hett, Pippa ^a   Turkington, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGY; FOOD SELECTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MAMMAL; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PROTEIN; SHRUB; STOMACH CONTENT;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; YUKON TERRITORY;

ANEMONE; ANEMONE PARVIFLORA; BETULA GLANDULOSA; CHAMERION LATIFOLIUM; EPILOBIUM; FESTUCA ALTAICA; LEPUS; LEPUS AMERICANUS; LUPINUS ARCTICUS; PICEA; SALIX; SHEPHERDIA CANADENSIS;

EID: 57649244785     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2008.16773.x     Document Type: Article

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