Demography of snowshoe hares in relation to regional climate variability during a 10-year population cycle in interior alaska

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1265-1272

  Kielland, K ^a   Olson, K ^a   Euskirchen, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONY; EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE; LARGE POPULATION; LIFE HISTORY; POPULATION GROWTH RATES; PRIMARY CONTROL; RAPID CHANGES; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONALITY;

POPULATION DYNAMICS; SNOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ABUNDANCE; BODY MASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEMOGRAPHY; GROWTH RATE; JUVENILE; LAGOMORPH; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MOLT; MORTALITY; POPULATION CYCLE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SNOW COVER; SURVIVAL;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

LEPUS; LEPUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 77955129769     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X10-053     Document Type: Article

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