Interaction of Snowshoe Hares and Woody Vegetation
| Autor: | Lloyd B. Keith, James L. Pease, Richard H. Vowles |
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| Rok vydání: | 1979 |
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Biomass (ecology)
education.field_of_study Ecology Corylus cornuta Snowshoe hare Population Grouse Biology biology.organism_classification Betula glandulosa Predation Animal science General Earth and Planetary Sciences education Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Nature and Landscape Conservation General Environmental Science Woody plant |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Wildlife Management. 43:43 |
| ISSN: | 0022-541X |
| DOI: | 10.2307/3800634 |
| Popis: | Winter feeding experiments with captive snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) indicated a mean daily requirement of about 300 g of woody browse having a maximum diameter of 3-4 mm. Food supplies were measured near Rochester, Alberta, during 6 consecutive winters, (1970-71 to 1975-76). Food was insufficient for hare populations on 2 study areas during a cyclic peak (winter 1970-71) and the following winter; food was still in short supply on a 3rd study area 2 winters after the peak. Twenty hare exclosures and their control plots, established in 1968 and sampled in summer 1971 and 1972, showed that hares had reduced the total biomass of woody stems |
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