Distribution and abundance of snowshoe hares in yellowstone national park

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 870-878

  Hodges, Karen E ^a,b   Scott Mills, L ^a   Murphy, Kerry M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire; Habitat; Lepus americanus; Lodgepole pine; Snowshoe hare; Yellowstone national park

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; EVERGREEN TREE; FOOD WEB; FOREST FIRE; HABITAT TYPE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAGOMORPH; MONTANE FOREST; RANGE EXPANSION; RARE SPECIES; REGENERATION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; VEGETATION COVER;

UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

LEPUS; LEPUS AMERICANUS; LYNX; LYNX CANADENSIS; PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 77950817949     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/08-MAMM-A-303.1     Document Type: Article

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