Do measures of plant intake and digestibility from captive feeding trials align with foraging patterns of free-ranging snowshoe hares?

Wildlife Research

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 349-357

  Ellsworth, Ethan ^a,b   Wirsing, Aaron J ^c   Shipley, Lisa A ^d   Murray, Dennis L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b Elko Field Office Bureau of Land Management   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

conifer; diet; digestion; energy; Lepus americanus; nutrition; Pinus contorta; protein; Pseudotsuga menziesii.

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BROWSING; CAPTIVE POPULATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; CONSPECIFIC; DIET; DIGESTIBILITY; ENERGY BALANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT QUALITY; HERBIVORE; INGESTION RATE; LAGOMORPH; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PROTEIN; RANGE SIZE;

EID: 84884865000     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR13106     Document Type: Article

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