Do changes in berry crops drive population fluctuations in small rodents in the southwestern Yukon?

Small mammals in boreal forest ecosystems fluctuate dramatically in abundance and 1 possible mechanism to explain these changes is the bottom-up hypothesis of variation in food supplies. Here we ask if variation in berry crops produced by 6 major species of dwarf shrubs and herbs, epigeous mushroom...

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Published in:Journal of Mammalogy
Main Authors: Krebs, Charles J., Cowcill, Kevan, Boonstra, Rudy, Kenney, Alice J.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2010
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Online Access:http://jmammal.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/91/2/500
https://doi.org/10.1644/09-MAMM-A-005.1