Dietary and Reproductive Responses of Arctic Foxes to Changes in Small Rodent Abundance

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Strand, Olav, Linnell, John D.C., Krogstad, Steinar, Landa, Arild
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1999
• Subjects: arctic fox; Alopex lagopus; diet; reproduction; renard arctique; alimentation; Arctic; Le Plateau; Norway; Renard; Renne; Snøhetta; Arctic Fox; Arctique*; Lepus timidus; Rangifer tarandus; renne
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63988

Between 1988 and 1995, dens in three adjacent arctic fox (Alopex lagopus) territories were monitored in an alpine environment in south-central Norway (the Snøhetta plateau). A total of 675 scats were collected at dens in both winter and summer, and the numbers of resident adults and pups at emergenc...