Understanding the Snowshoe Hare Cycle through Large-scale Field Experiments

• Main Authors: Boutin, Stan, Krebs, Charles J.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2002
• Subjects: Canada; Kluane Lake; Krebs; Sinclair; Yukon; Lynx
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195140989.003.0008

The 10-year cycles of the snowshoe hare and lynx seen in Hudson’s Bay fur returns represent a classic example of cyclic population dynamics. Hare cycles have been the subject of time series analysis (Stenseth et al. 1998), population modeling (Royama 1992), and field experimentation (Keith and Windb...