Demographic response of tundra small mammals to a snow fencing experiment

• Published in: Oikos
• Main Authors: Bilodeau, Frédéric, Reid, Donald G., Gauthier, Gilles, Krebs, Charles J., Berteaux, Dominique, Kenney, Alice J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2012
• Subjects: Bylot Island; Climate change; Herschel; Herschel Island; Nunavut; Tundra; Yukon
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00220.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1600-0706.2012.00220.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00220.x

Snow cover is a key environmental component for tundra wildlife that will be affected by climate change. Change to the snow cover may affect the population dynamics of high‐latitude small mammals, which are active throughout the winter and reproduce under the snow. We experimentally tested the hypot...