Data from: Using experimentation to understand the 10-year snowshoe hare cycle in the boreal forest of North America

• Main Authors: Krebs, Charles, Boonstra, Rudy, Boutin, Stan, Krebs, Charles J.
• Language: unknown
• Published: Borealis
• Subjects: Other; Boreal forest; Anthropocene; Yukon; Lepus americanus; predation; food shortage; synchrony; travelling waves; sublethal stress; Canada; Kerr; Alaska; Lynx
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/HEPIT0

Abstract 1. 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 (Lepus americanu...