A geographic analysis of snowshoe hare population demography

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Zoology
• Main Author: Murray, Dennis L
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2000
• Subjects: Canada; Lawrence River; Alaska; Lynx
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z00-025; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/z00-025

Snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) populations across northern Canada and Alaska undergo 8- to 11-year cycles in numbers, but population trends in southern Canada and the contiguous United States are apparently either weakly cyclic, irruptive, or largely stable. Although the demographic attributes (po...