Using experimentation to understand the 10‐year snowshoe hare cycle in the boreal forest of North America

• Published in: Journal of Animal Ecology
• Main Authors: Krebs, Charles J., Boonstra, Rudy, Boutin, Stan
• Other Authors: Wilson, Ken, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2017
• Subjects: Canada; Kerr; Alaska; Lynx
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12720; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2F1365-2656.12720; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2656.12720; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/1365-2656.12720; https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2656.12720

Abstract Population cycles have long fascinated ecologists from the time of Charles Elton in the 1920s. The discovery of large population fluctuations in undisturbed ecosystems challenged the idea that pristine nature was in a state of balance. The 10‐year cycle of snowshoe hares ( L epus americanus...