Data from an experimental study to determine the impact of snow hardness on lemming locomotion : Données d’une étude expérimentale visant à déterminer l’impact de la dureté de la neige sur la locomotion des lemmings

• Main Authors: Poirier, Mathilde, Fauteux, Dominique, Gauthier, Gilles, Dominé, Florent, Lamarre, Jean-François
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Nordicana D 2021
• Subjects: Arctique; Arctic; comportement de creusage; burrowing behavior; dureté; hardness; fouisseur; fossorial; lemming; locomotion; neige; snow; pluie-sur-neige; rain-on-snow; rongeur; rodent; sous-nival; subnivean; tunnel; Bruns; Cambridge Bay; Nunavut; Arctique*; Dicrostonyx groenlandicus; Lemmus trimucronatus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5885/45747ce-3ba23a9a7c48406b; http://www.cen.ulaval.ca/nordicanad/dpage.aspx?doi=45747CE-3BA23A9A7C48406B

Lemmings are an essential link of the Arctic food web as they are the main prey of many predators inhabiting these regions. These small rodents exhibiting cyclic fluctuation of their population can stay active throughout the winter and must dig a network of tunnels in the snow to reach vegetation on...