Winter diet, habitat selection and fluctuation of a mountain hare Lepus timidus population in Finnish Forest Lapland

• Published in: Ecography
• Main Authors: Pulliainen, Erkki, Tunkkari, Paavo S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1987
• Subjects: Lepus timidus; mountain hare; Lapland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.1987.tb00767.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1600-0587.1987.tb00767.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1600-0587.1987.tb00767.x

Composition of the winter diet, habitat selection and population fluctuations in the mountain hare Lepus timidus were studied in the Värriötunturi fell area, Eastern Finnish Forest Lapland, during the winters 1968/69–1984/85. The three population lows recorded during this 17‐year period followed eac...