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
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Life sciences; medicine and health care; Canada; Kerr; Alaska; Lynx
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-y6-hvfa; https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:97778

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 americanus Erxlebe...